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Flexible Welfare Architecture:More-than-mercantile relations at Grantoften Shopping Center
No full textRecent studies in Nordic and European architectural- and urban history have emphasized the importance of commercial modernism in the making of European welfare societies. However, as this research has predominantly approached architecture from a planning and design angle, we know little about the actual use of these spaces and their socio-spatial flexibility and capacity in negotiating welfare on an everyday scale. Focusing on four shops located in Grantoften Shopping Center, this article introduces the concept of ‘more-than-mercantile relations’ to capture the multifaceted negotiations and exchanges through which local actors mobilize the spatiality of Grantoften Shopping Center into forms of everyday welfare. Combining archival studies and ethnographic data, the article examines how welfare at a local level is negotiated through specific temporal entwinements of spatial locations and everyday practices of care. By reimagining shopping centers as spaces of care and community interaction, this article contributes to research discussions on the geography of care, emphasizing the capacity of everyday commercial spaces to shape and be shaped by welfare practices
Anna Ancher:Painting Light
No full textDenne katalog ledsager den første store udstilling i Storbritannien dedikeret til Anna Ancher (1859–1935), som betragtes som en af de mest innovative kunstnere i dansk kunsthistorie.Udstillingen samler nyligt opdagede malerier fra Anna Anchers hjem sammen med et omfattende udvalg af værker skabt gennem kunstnerens lange karriere. Den vil præsentere mere end 40 af hendes malerier, herunder kunstnerens mest berømte mesterværker, venligst udlånt af Skagens Museum.Som en central figur i kunstnerkolonien i Skagen, beliggende på den nordligste spids af Jylland, anses Ancher bredt for at være den mest betydningsfulde kvindelige maler i dansk kunsthistorie. Hun er højt værdsat i sit hjemland, men er fortsat relativt ukendt for et britisk publikum.Ancher var en indflydelsesrig skikkelse i den skandinaviske bevægelse Det Moderne Gennembrud, der søgte at skildre det virkelige liv. Dette kommer til udtryk i hendes intime og observerende værker, som dokumenterer hverdagsoplevelser i fiskerbyen Skagen.Påvirket af sine rejser til Paris såvel som af fransk impressionisme skabte kunstneren levende interiører og stemningsfulde landskabsscener, hvor lyset bliver det centrale motiv. Udstillingen vil fremhæve Anchers dristige tilgang til farver og hendes radikale fortolkning af hverdagsmotiver som en sandt banebrydende modernistisk maler.This catalogue accompanies the first major exhibition in the UK dedicated to Anna Ancher (1859-1935), considered to be one the most innovative artists in Danish art history. Bringing together recently discovered paintings from Anna Ancher’s home, alongside an extensive body of work made throughout the artist’s long career, the exhibition will feature more than 40 of her paintings, including the artist’s most famous masterpieces on special loan from Skagens Museum. A central figure of the Skagen artist colony, based at the northernmost point of Jutland, Ancher is widely considered to be the most significant female painter in Danish art history. She is widely celebrated in her homeland yet remains relatively unknown to British audiences. Ancher was an influential figure of the Scandinavian ‘Modern Breakthrough’ movement that sought to capture real life, demonstrated in her intimate, observational works, which documented everyday experiences in the fishing town of Skagen.Influenced by her travels to Paris, as well as French Impressionism, the artist produced vivid interiors and evocative landscape scenes in which light becomes the central figure. The exhibition will demonstrate Ancher’s bold approach to colour and radical interpretation of everyday scenes as a truly pioneering modern painter
