Royal Danish Magazine, March 11, 2022 Copenhagen News (Reporters: Peng Zhongmin, Zhu Xiaojun.)
On March 11, konrad M gi's mysterious painting oil exhibition opened at GL STRAND in Copenhagen, with a lecture by Pilvi Kalhama, curator of the exhibition and director of the Museum of Modern Art in Espoo, Finland. The Minister of Culture of the Republic of Estonia, Terik, attended the opening ceremony of the exhibition and was interviewed by the Royal Danish journalist Peng Zhongmin at the scene.
In the picturesque world of Konrad M gi, under the heading of the Symbolist current, Pilvi Kalhama gives an in-depth lecture on this extraordinary Estonian mysterious colorist and his unique combination of modernist styles.
Pilvi Kalhama is the curator of the Museum of Modern Art in Espoo, Finland, and the author of a book about Konrad M gi published during the exhibition.
Pilvi Kalhama said that through selected works and analysis, M gi's work is stylistically connected to his contemporary colleagues, but the changing artist environment, international modern art and especially the influence of nature has been crucial for his growth into Estonia's leading modernist, showing the artist's symbolic theme and his unique symbolist philosophy.
The landscape painting exhibition of Estonian artist Konrad M gi (Conrad Magi, 1878-1925) presents more than forty paintings by the artist from different creative periods, highlighting his dramatic works of intense color and sensitivity to nature.
Konrad M gi grew up near the ancient forests of southern Estonia and has always considered painting to be an attempt to infiltrate the mysterious power of nature. For him, both nature and capturing it on canvas offers an almost sacred experience, as the artist, who is extremely sensitive to nature, has been looking for a way to engage with the unreal, and his work has been widely acclaimed even during his lifetime. During the Soviet period, the display of M gi's works was once banned. Nevertheless, he became a classic writer in Estonian art history by the end of the 1970s. In recent years, the M gi phenomenon has also spread to Western Europe: solo exhibitions have been held in Rome, and some of his works have been exhibited at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Foreign critics have also highlighted M gi's extraordinary sense of color and unique relationship with nature. The exhibition does not include all the genres that M gi has tried, it focuses on his landscapes and paintings of the Italian period, completed in Capri, Rome and Venice.
In an interview with royal Danish journalist Peng Zhongmin, Pilvi Kalhama, curator of the exhibition and director of the Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Finland, said: "The exhibition presents a large number of works by Konrad M gi (Konrad Magee, a pioneer of Estonian modernism, 1878-1925), including a large number of surviving paintings, for a total of about 150 works. In addition to the landscape, the exhibition also features M gi's finest portraits.
M gi created his first oil painting in Oran, having previously studied in St. Petersburg, and he also studied briefly at Ateneum in Helsinki. He later traveled to France, Norway, Germany and Italy, and then back to Estonia. M gi was a cosmopolitan who described what he saw, felt, and learned during his travels. He freely uses different forms of expression and always depicts different natural scenes in different ways. The M gi makes it different from many of its contemporaries through the bold use of color, and in fact, the unique M gi is not comparable in the history of European modernism. Nature is the main source of inspiration for the M gi, a source of strength and a tool to explore the potential of painting, the human condition and the mystery of life beyond the visible reality. Instead of creating real-world portraits, M gi focuses on how to paint and how to express things that can only be conveyed in painting. In his captivating portraits, M gi's main goal was to create an engaging painting. It is a pleasure to curate, for the first time, an exhibition outside of Estonia showcasing the uniqueness of Konrad M gi art. The artist's connection to Finland is also a powerful motivator for Finnish audiences to reach M gi.
At the scene of the exhibition event, the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Estonia, Terik, was interviewed by the Royal Danish Journalist Peng Zhongmin.
Minister Tiit Terik said: Estonian art is different from Danish art. The exhibition, organized in cooperation with the Estonian Art Museum, features works from the Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Ander and Tuglas Literary Center of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, the Enkunilla Art Collection and private collections. Estonian artwork is predominantly realist, but there is also surrealism.
The history of art painting in Denmark dates back hundreds of years, and some early works are mostly found in church frescoes. The golden age of Danish painting only began in the early 19th century, and Christopher Wilhelm Eckersberg had a profound influence on later Danish natural landscape painters.
In the 19th century, P.S. Kr ye (Croyer), Michael Peter Ancher and Anna Ancher moved to Skagen in the north of Jutland to depict the local customs and customs, so it gradually developed into a gathering place for painters.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in northern Copenhagen, Aalborg in northern Jutland and the Aros Aarhus Art Museum in northern Jutland have a large collection of modern art.
The National Museum of Art with its rich collection and the New Karlsberg Gallery are located in Copenhagen.
(Photo: Royal Danish photographer Peng Zhongmin Hasse Ferrold; Editor: Wu Jingfang)