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Moderna Museet in Stockholm is currently undergoing reconstruction. The Spanish architect Rafael Moneo has designed a new building for the island of Skeppsholmen which is due to be completed by the end of 1997. It will complement
the Swedish Navy's old exercise hall, where Moderna Museet has been housed since its foundation in 1956. The temporary closure of Moderna Museet's main building has provided a unique opportunity to borrow a great portion of its collection. Moderna
Museet will be represented in the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle by its most outstanding works. Pontus Hulten and Björn Springfeldt, the curators of the exhibition, have both been directors of the Moderna Museet at different times.
It is the concentration of works from nascent and transitional phases of this century's various art movements which lends the collection of Moderna Museet its unmistakable character. Approx. 250 of the best works will be displayed in the Great Hall and the two adjacent galleries on the ground floor of the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle. They form the core of this exhibition and provide an account of the international development of art in the 20th century which is contrasted with Swedish art from the same period. A special exhibition in the Central Cabinet from 4 July to 28 August 1996 provides an insight into the collection of more than 100,000 photographs in the Fotografiska Museet, a section of Moderna Museet. The exhibition will be divided into six sections: 1. International classical modernism 1900-1950 2. Swedish Art 1900-1950 3. Marcel Duchamp 4. Öyvind Fahlström 5. International and Swedish art since 1950 6. Photography 1843-1995 |
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