Kvindestemmer finder i år sted den første dag i marts – en lørdag eftermiddag fyldt med god underholdning af kvindelige kunstnere. Blandt stemmerne er forfatterne Ursula Andkjær Olsen og Anne-Cathrine Riebnitzsky, multikunstneren Shohreh Sharzad og sangeren Hanne Methling. Lisbeth (min hustru, med efternavnet Tolstrup) er konferencier, og jeg har endnu en gang stået for design …
År: 2014
“Pages…” now in Tàpies’ collection
My book Pages of a Non-Existent Diary has been included in the library of my all-time favourite museum, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona. The library, which opened in 1990, is based around a donation by Tàpies of some 5,000 volumes. Today the collection holds over 48.000 volumes (books and exhibition catalogues), 500 journals and …
To udstillinger på vej
Kolding og Lund. Marts måned bliver dobbelt op på udstillinger. Fredag 28. februar åbner Galleri Pagter en udstilling med udvalgte malerier – faktisk min første separatudstilling i Kolding, siden jeg flyttede fra byen i 1987. Galleriets indehaver, Orla Pagter, har sammensat et utraditionelt udvalg af både helt nye værker og enkelte fra sidst i 1980’erne. …
“Poet of the bus ticket”
The phrase of the day has to be this one, from a July 1968 edition of the art magazine Apollo (founded in 1925) which I found under a heap of books and papers and magazines in the studio today. “The poet of the bus ticket” is used to describe Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948), the German artist …
Collector’s Items – on Saatchi Online
These three remaining paintings/collages from the Collection series (2008) have been added to my shop on Saatchi Online – click the image above or go to saatchionline.com/pryds. You can also read a very short description (in English and Danish) of the idea behind the compositions on this page.