Saturday 25 August 2012

Groninger Museum

The Groninger Museum, seen from the canal side.
The bridge to the Museum, when it opens up for boat traffic you can see the typical Delft tiles.
http://www.groningermuseum.nl/en

tom thomson evening canoe
Evening, Canoe Lake, 1915-16, Tom Thomson
The Pointers, 1916-17, Tom Thomson

The Groninger Museum had several temporary and permanent collections when we visited in August 2012.
I saw a poster on the train station in Den Helder regarding the exhibition "Painting Canada, Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven" and got very fascinated by the poster picture ("The Pointers"). That was when I decided to go to Groningen and see this exhibition.
Lawren Harris, "Untitled Mountain Landscape", c. 1927-78.
J. E. H. MacDonald, "Lake O'Hara", 1930
A chinese artist, Yin Xiuzhen, was also displayed there at the time, installations with philosophical undertones.
For all her installations, she always uses a lot of second hand clothes that she stitches up into new creations. Amazing!

"Collective Subconscious", 2007
Her newest installation; "Nowhere to land", 2012.

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