Matts Leiderstam , Paris 1999-03-15, Returned, Parc des Buttes-Chaumont made after Nicolas Poussin\'s spring or The earthly Paradise, 1660-64, Rome , 1999 © Matts Leiderstam
MMP: Matts Leiderstam
18.3 1999 – 2.5 1999
Stockholm
Both are based on symbols and codes which only the initiated can interpret. The artist makes use of, for instance, the homosexual´s classic “cruising” – but in museums and art literature rather than in public spaces. One series has its point of departure in 17th century ideas about the ideal landscape, interpreted by the painter Nicolas Poussin, and their successors – modern city parks – where homosexuals in particular like to gather.
Matts Leiderstam´s Moderna Museet Projekt takes place at the Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris. When he paints a copy of the painting in front of Poussin´s Spring (The Earthly Paradise) at the Louvre, where certain details are changed so that differences appear vis a vis the original, and when the copy is left in one of the city´s parks, the circle is closed: the ideal landscape is returned. In the gallery there will be an installation with inter alia a slide projection on the copy when it is placed in the park.
Curator: Maria Lind
Moderna Museet Project
Moderna Museet Project is an activity of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Artists are commissioned to make new work for the temporary project space in the Old Vicarage next to the museum on Skeppsholmen, for other situations and environments in the city of Stockholm or elsewhere.
