'The Scream', Munch
Not even Cecilia Roth's lament blaming a transvestite for her misfortunes in Everything about my mother nor the jungle howls of Naomi Watts in King Kong . The most popular cry in the world is a painting that is a genre in itself. A fundamental decoration element in psychoanalyst consultations from three to a quarter and one of the most recognizable works on the planet. Probably the name of Munch would not be such a reputable brand on the planet without this painting (which are actually more, since there are 4 different versions) and his work would have been lost among private collections and retrospectives of young emigrants in the Berlin of Expressionism . But beyond hypothesis, what he left behind was an entire city as it is Oslo, devoted to him and in love with his work.
If we were not in the customized year 2013, this article would also have its crumb. The 450 km2 area that Oslo occupies is more than enough to Thematic routes and amazing discoveries about the painter . For example, in the Grünerlokka neighborhood there is a whole walk for mythomaniacs who try to discover the relationship between the places of his childhood with the details of his works. More pills for a visit in search of Munch: the college auditorium has the most impressive decorative paintings while the freya chocolate factory He jealously guards the series of 12 paintings that make up the well-known Freia frieze.
But perhaps the most anecdotal point of this Scandinavian-expressionist gymkhana be the Pallet shopping center , where rest Sunset at Karl Johan , one of his first great works in which the painter began to use almost cinematographic approaches and a very novel mastery of color and forms (he adored Gauguin). Come on, among the most exclusive stores there is a gap for art. As if the three graces of Rubens were planted in the middle of Madrid's Golden Mile.
In the Paleet shopping center rests 'Sunset in Karl Johan'
Well, as it turns out that we are in his year, we will have to enjoy the doors that open thanks to this event. For example the great exhibition , the one that has recovered paintings and revived works from the most inaccessible private collections to bring and exhibit them all together. It will start on June 1 and it will be so pharaonic that it needs two spaces how are the National Gallery and the munch museum and a combined ticket for your enjoyment. It will be the largest exhibition of Munch paintings in history, but it is also a very important milestone, a kind of first step so that his paintings go to other temporary monographic exhibitions all over the world. It will arrive in Spain in the fall of 2015. Of course, to Thyssen . You can already begin to imagine that anguished cadaverous face hanging from the plastic banners of the streetlights in the capital. Dynamite for jams.
Oslo screams with Munch
Munch Museum, the essential of the route
More ingredients for the deafening party. the quoted freya chocolate factory it will be a little more magnanimous and will open its hermetic doors more times to enjoy the famous frieze. The University auditorium will also extend its hours this year. His old studio in Ekely's town It will no longer be the inspiring rental space for scholarship artists and will be taught as if it kept his soul since it was his last place of residence. Although perhaps the most curious activity is that of climb the Ekeberg hill from where you can see everything The Oslo Fjord and trying to get intoxicated by the same anguish that pushed Munch to turn an idyllic landscape into a universal psychological space.
Views of the fjord from Ekeberg, the inspiration for Munch
The Spanish touch, the sangria of the bar of this spree is provided by Herrerosarquitectos. Five years ago this study won the contest for the construction of a new Munch museum , a new headquarters that has the objective of dialoguing and getting along with the opera house and, incidentally, helping to consolidate the neighborhood of Bjorvika as the window to the urbanism of the future: avant-garde and sustainable. However, so much celebration and so many expectations focused on the great exhibition have delayed its inauguration, although the works will end this year.
Ah, one last note to seem like a true culturalism professional: Munch is pronounced Munk.
Munch's new museum project