On our walk home from the Moderna, we saw this icy view of Nybroviken and the boats to the archipelago. Photo by Robert Corkery.
On our Sunday walk, Robert and I stopped at one of our favorite places in Stockholm – the Moderna. The Modern Museum consistently has some of the best curated shows that I have seen anywhere. Exhibits are done thoughtfully and with good attention to detail. I tend to like how the museum hangs their shows. Plus, the museum cafe has one of the best views in Stockholm, looking over the Ladugårdslandsviken toward Strandvägen.
We checked out the show by modern Swedish artist Evert Lundquist who made his painting debut in 1934 and kept working for the next 50 years. The majority of Lundquist’s canvases here have thick impasto layers of color. On many canvases, the paint is laid on so thick that it takes on a sculptural identity. It is the kind of textural stuff I love, the kind that makes me want to be a bad museum goer and poke my fingernail into the paint and just feel the rough surface. The thick impasto looks interesting close up, but the designs really pack a good punch from across the room as well. And the show is definitely worth checking out, by the way, for an insight into Swedish modernism.
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