{"id":1923,"date":"2015-08-14T10:53:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-14T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/?p=1923"},"modified":"2017-07-14T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T15:09:11","slug":"a-danish-sojourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/2015\/08\/14\/a-danish-sojourn\/","title":{"rendered":"A Danish Sojourn"},"content":{"rendered":"

To end the summer, Beth Finch,\u00a0Lunder Curator of American Art, ventured to Denmark to catch the closing\u00a0of the exhibit Terry Winters Prints: 1999\u20132014\u00a0and to\u00a0supervise\u00a0the return of Colby’s loans to the show. While there, Beth was also able to attend the Louisiana Literature festival.\u00a0Enjoy her\u00a0reflection on her travels!<\/em><\/p>\n

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View of the Louisiana’s waterfront campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s not often that one can combine a swim in the ocean with a day of art appreciation, but that\u2019s exactly what some Louisiana Museum of Modern Art<\/a> visitors did when presented with an especially beautiful late summer afternoon on the coast of Denmark\u2019s \u00d8resund. Founded in 1958 on the grounds of a former estate, the Louisiana is in Humleb\u00e6k, a suburb of Copenhagen, and its spectacular setting and artful approach to hospitality makes it an ideal excursion from the capital.<\/p>\n

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Installation view of Terry Winters Prints: 1999-2014<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I visited the Louisiana to see Terry Winters Prints: 1999\u20132014<\/em>, an exhibition that the Colby Museum co-organized with the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung M\u00fcnchen, and to hear Louisiana curator Anders Kold interview Winters as part of Louisiana Literature<\/a>. Now in its sixth\u00a0year, this celebrated literary festival brings together an international roster of writers for public talks and readings. The 2015 participants include the novelists Richard Ford, Rachel Kushner, and Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn. Winters contributed the artwork for the festival poster and, in recognition of his print collaborations with writers, was the sole visual artist featured in the program. In conversation with Kold, Winters reflected on his early and omnivorous dedication to reading and his fascination with books as objects. \u201cI do judge books by their covers,\u201d he wryly admitted. Winters went on to frame his interest in collaborating with writers whose work resonates with his own in indirect but nonetheless mutually\u00a0productive ways. (To date, he has made print projects with the writers Jean Starobinski<\/a>, \u00a0Ben Marcus<\/a>, and Eliot Weinberger<\/a>.) An evocation of writing surfaced in Winters\u2019s discussion of his process, in which he accesses visual source material to \u201cdissolve,\u201d he observed, \u201cthe distinctions between fact and fiction.\u201d Later that afternoon, the Irish author Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn described his practice in distinctly painterly terms when he observed that writing is a way to \u201cput a shape on\u201d a recollection, \u201cto thicken it, make it more full of texture.\u201d Judging from the good use that visitors made of Louisiana\u2019s picturesque campus\u2014reading, picnicking, napping, and the aforementioned swimming, not to mention listening and looking\u2014the weekend had occasioned a renewable feast of exquisite memories.<\/p>\n

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Poster for the Louisiana Literature festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last day of Terry Winters Prints: 1999\u20132014<\/em>\u00a0at the Louisiana Museum is August 30, 2015, after which the works will rejoin the Winters Print Collection at the Colby Museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Judging from the good use that visitors made of Louisiana\u2019s picturesque campus\u2014reading, picnicking, napping, and the aforementioned swimming, not to mention listening and looking\u2014the weekend had occasioned a renewable feast of exquisite memories.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7103,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[101948,101973,351319,101947],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/files\/2017\/07\/Winters-Gallery-Louisiana.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3U3TZ-v1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7103"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/thelantern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}