Preview summer 2002

--Michael Archer

COPENHAGEN

Arne Jacobsen

LOUISIANA MUSEUM FOR MODERNE KUNST

When it comes to twentieth-century Danish design, Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) is your man. You name it, he did it, from gardens and furniture to silverware and high-rises. In fact, given the abiding presence of his all-encompassing creativity, it sometimes seems Jacobsen never left us. For this extensive centenary celebration, curator Kjeld Kjeldsen teams with historian Carsten Thau and architect Kjeld Vindum to emphasize the material and sensual aspects of the work. And to adjudicate Jacobsen's architectural heritage, interpretations by contemporary colleague such as Sejima+Nishizawa/SANAA, Gigon/Guyer, and Perrault/Lauriot-Prevost are in the plans. Aug.30, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, May 22, 2003-Aug. 3, 2003.

Lars Bang Larsen

My Head Is On Fire but My Heart Is Full of Love

CHARLOTTENBORG

Glasgow's Modern Institute curators Will Bradley, Henriette Bretton-Meyer, and Toby Webster lead a master class in free-association in Copenhagen this spring. The list of artists alone reads like a dream permanent collection: '6os stalwarts Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Smithson, Paul Thek, and Andy Warhol; earlier avant-gardists such as Naum Gabo and Man Ray; and contemporaries including Isa Genzken, Evan Holloway, and Henrik Plenge Jakobsen. Amid all this are curios-- jewelry, psychedelic posters, photos of the young Bowie--beyond art history's normal purview. The curators say their foray is rooted in a Minimalist vocabulary of sorts--one they describe as "theatrical, mannered, gothic, mystic, mathematical and baroque." May 9-June 9.

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SYDNEY

Biennale of Sydney 2002

VARIOUS VENUES

Chirpily titled "(The World May Be) Fantastic," the thirteenth installment of the Sydney biennial homes in on the fanciful, with an eccentric lineup of artistic imagineers creating parallel worlds and fictitious scenarios. The publicity palaver conjures a festival of flawed utopianism, featuring Vito Acconci at the head of a colorful parade of reality-testing artworks. Artistic director Richard Grayson has collaborated with Susan Hiller, Ralph Rugoff, and Janos Sugar in choosing the broadly international roster of roughly fifty artists. Primarily located at the Art Gallery of New South Wales arid the Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition will also occupy several satellite venues--most notably the sensational Sydney Opera House, perfectly capping off the Fantasyland thematics. May 15-July 14.

Jeff Gibson

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