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ART & DESIGN A CLOSE-UP ON THE ARTISTS, ARTISANS AND ARCHITECTS ENLIVENING OUR WORLD Photos from left: wolfgang tillmans; mary evans/library of congress Exhibition The Arctic’s As global warming opens the Far North to big business, one of the world’s coolest cultural outposts, Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, examines the region’s abiding mystique. By Zeke Turner Aman walks toward the camera as a ship trails behind. He looks small against the horizon, but the rest of the frame is white and barren, so it’s hard to tell how far away he is or how closely the ship follows. The vessel’s giant hull appears to rise and fall slowly over an indiscernible swell, but it’s actually sliding up and over sheets of ice and splitting them apart under its tremendous weight. This scene is from a video by Dutch artist Guido van der Werve, who filmed himself walking in front of a 4,000-ton icebreaker in Finland’s Gulf of Bothnia, just outside the Arctic Circle. He calls the work Num mer Acht: Everything is going to be alright. With the polar ice melting and the world warming up to the idea of min ing and drilling in the Arc tic, van der Werve’s title addresses our fears about what’s happening – and what stands to be gained and lost – in the region. As the Arctic shipping season – a novel concept in itself – came to a peak in September, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art presented an exhibition titled “The Arctic – Image and Desire”, aimed at unravelling Western culture’s fascination with and anxieties about the region over the past 200 years. The Louisiana, Denmark’s premier modern art museum, 40 minutes north of Copenhagen in the coastal town of Humlebæk, has distinguished itself internationally with exhibitions that take a global view of cultural themes by pairing historical CENTURION-Magazine.COM 81
