Wilhelm Freddie – Stick the Fork in Your Eye!

Posted by Claudio Goldini at 28 Feb 2009, 9:09 AM
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A radical Danish artist
Wilhelm Freddie, who would have turned 100 this year, is one of the most radical Danish artists of the 20th century. He experienced how the police closed his exhibitions and impounded his works, and he even had to go to prison because of his art. But Freddie could do more than create headings in the newspapers. His uncompromising work with surrealism and his experiments with various artistic media gave him a central position in Danish art history. Read Freddie's biography

The exhibition
Wilhelm Freddie – Stick the Fork in Your Eye! is the title of the exhibition, for exactly like a fork in our eye, Freddie wanted to awaken us from the slumber he believed bourgeoislife had brought upon us. By confronting us with unconscious dreams and instincts he activates our repressed powers. Hence, Freddie’s works are not supposed to be understood in a common-sense way, but to be used as a stepping-stone to our own fantasies.

More than 150 works of art
The exhibition shows more than 150 of Freddie’s works, including not only paintings and sculptures, but also film, ballet, happenings, window displays, dress design and more.
The works are displayed in 13 smaller thematic groups which cut across the chronology.

Special site for the exhibition
For the exhibition SMK Digital have created a special home page with various content on Wilhelm Freddie. The micro-site includes games, films, radio broadcasts and interactive maps and unfolds the variety of Wilhelm Freddies large body of work. Please notice, that the site is only in Danish.
Enter the micro-site

The micro-site is sponsored by
The Nordea Foundation.

Statens Museum for Kunst

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