About Henry Heerup and Carl-Henning Pedersen's artistic collaboration and friendship, focusing on the Venice Biennale 1962.
With HENNING OG HEERUP INTERNATIONAL, Heerup Museum and Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum explore the two Cobra artists' participation in the Venice Biennale in 1962, highlighting their shared sources of inspiration and ideals of freedom, as well as their international breakthrough as representatives of Denmark.
Read much more about how Heerup and Henning's works took over Venice as "a breath of fresh air from the North," and the significance the exhibition had in a broader art historical context in the beautiful exhibition catalogue with articles by Anni Lave Nielsen, museum director at Heerup Museum, and Lotte Korshøj, museum director at Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelts Museum, as well as researchers Jens Tang Kristensen and Kristian Handberg, who have delved into, respectively, the concept of freedom in the two artists and the Venice Biennale as a transnational exhibition format.
Heerup Museum and Carl-Henning Pedersen & Else Alfelts Museum.
Hardcover. 21 × 27 cm. 186 pages. Photos. Articles in Danish and fully translated into English.
