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looks effortless, that it feels light, that it
breathes easy is all the result of scrupulous
Danish decision-making.
In its final composition, which now
consists of a few additional structures
including a sea-facing café, the low-slung
pile is on par with any work adorning its
walls or dotting its astonishing sculpture
park—and there are quite a few of those.
The Louisiana's collection includes an
international representation of 4,000 works
dating from 1945 to the present. These
pieces span genres and are rotated in
and out. The scrupulousness applied to
crafting the architecture extends to the
exhibitions themselves. In keeping with
Danish minimalism, artwork is afforded
the space to show properly. Galleries are
not gushing over with every great work,
though they might have been had the
space been less considered and the art
disorganized. As it is, the museum exhibits
its collection in groups of work and artistic
periods, ranging from Constructivism to
the American pop art movement, staging
up to 10 special exhibits a year. But it is a
show year-round. Put it this way: It is one
thing to see a Lichtenstein up close, but
quite another to see it here.
Bo who surveyed the site at length before
settling on its utopia of exhibition halls
and glass-walled corridors from which
to stop and gaze out at the greenery and
the sea. Usually flabbergasted—such
beauty. A minimal material palette of
white walls, laminated wood ceilings and
deep red tiles, meanwhile, characterize
the interior canvas of the buildings and
express a genuine fidelity to the simplicity
of Scandinavian style. That the architecture
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