“Louisiana on Paper – Lucian Freud– A Closer Look” is a rare exhibition of graphic works by renowned British artist Lucian Freud (1922-2011) at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art from September 3 through November 29, 2015.
“Lucian Freud– A Closer Look” showcases 52 stunning examples of Freud’s graphic production after 1982, the year he returned to etching following a 34-year hiatus, and draws primarily from the UBS Art Collection, one of the largest corporate collections of contemporary art in the world
Curated by Anders Kold, the exhibition allows visitors to examine the compelling range of gazes, sensations, and actions expressed by Freud in his distinctive black and white depictions of the human body, which the Museum describes as “confrontational, challenging, and impossible to ignore.”
“Lucian Freud stands as one of the most striking artists from the post-war era. His exclusion of social and period-related contexts around his figures is radical and underscores the extent to which his art is and remains art,” Kold explained.
“Freud’s portrayal of the human body involves not only the totality of his many observations and his point of view, but also implicitly the models’ responses and our own – the public’s – reactions. This is art that calls not only on our faculty of seeing, but also in a wider sense on the feelings that are associated with something remembered in our own bodies and psyches.”
“Louisiana on Paper – Lucian Freud– A Closer Look” is at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark from September 3 through November 29, 2015.
