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“It is totally surreal.” Lately I have heard this phrase several times, when the streets have become increasingly deserted and suddenly we are forced to behave in a completely different way from what we are used to. Every time I hear the phrase, I rejoice in my still mind that the designation of an art direction with nearly a hundred years on its neck has become such a solid component of our vocabulary today that we find common understanding in a state that we wouldn’t have otherwise. word for
We dare to art when words push. As our worldview slips out of its fixed and orderly template, we search for new images for a state we have never experienced before. The images that artists have created throughout history, and that we now suddenly remember, may temporarily stop us: the solitary figures of Edward Hopper in abandoned urban landscapes even reflect the images of crowded streets around the world that now flourish on the Internet. it has become our only window to the world. Giorgio de Chirico’s endless pedestrian corridors with long shadows and sinister skies sparkle as we move through the nearly deserted streets.
Socially distanced art? Edward Hoppers “Sunlight in the Cafeteria”.
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The isolation, anxiety, fear and loneliness that we can hold with the rod seeking refuge in the images that art has given us and many of us certainly find a kind of calm in the sense that, after all, we are not alone with our thoughts and experiences. “Surreal” is a condition that we now understand with both the body and the soul.
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The modern museum is then the center. March closed temporarily and two new exhibits hang in our hallways waiting for their audience. Currently we do not know when we will be able to reopen the museum, but we do know that we will also be financially affected by the situation of the crown that has paralyzed the world. These days, though, my thoughts go to galleries, artist-run showrooms, and individual artists. Those who are bleeding while performing their duties are aware of how much they can give back to man at a time when we are confused and bewildered in search of a foothold. As part of a modern squatter made up of small independent merchants whose job motivation is to interpret everything that is happening now, they continue to create even though there is no one who can pay the rent.
As superintendent of the Moderna museum, I wish I had an invisible fund box that could make a much-needed contribution to this. Of course, we will do our best to invest in the Swedish artists that are so necessary to us, but we cannot do it alone: Today’s Modern Museum relies heavily on private foundations and donors to purchase art.
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The government was quick on to deliver a half trillion support package to culture and sports, best of all. But art cannot depend solely on government investment. Companies, banks, municipalities, associations, citizens: we all have the responsibility that art continues to play the role in our society that is now more important than ever. So I would like to urge you that now is the time to buy that work you always had in mind or use quarantine time to visit artists’ galleries and websites to find works that challenge, overwhelm, or comfort the way only art is capable of doing.
The future is tremendously uncertain, and when one day in many years we look back at what is happening now, we will need art as a document from the moment we are now going around together. If we forget the art of this deeper crisis, the world becomes as serious as a yellow horizon that screams in a surreal painting. But if we remember, perhaps there is room for hope and relief that was also in the meeting with the work of the surrealists and where we finally experience that someone has imagined a world that in many ways feels so completely incomprehensible.
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