SELVPORTRÆT

Häftad bok. –– FÖRLAGSNY! –– Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst. 2019. 127 sidor.

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Louisiana’s big Autumn exhibition Self-Portrait focus on the self-portrait as genre through-out the 20th and 21st century, as shown by 150 works by 64 international artists from early modernism till today. How does one represent oneself? And what are the connections between self-portraiture and self-representation? Can a self-portrait be an objective, neutral representation, or should it depict the complex mind, personality and life-conditions of the artist? Can a self-portrait at all portray a person’s composite identity? These are some of the question the exhibition raises, questions that extend beyond the artist’s own universe into the life of the viewer – and this is exactly the source of the fascination exerted by the multiplicity of works shown in the exhibition.
• The self-portrait is a classic, well-tried but also intense and almost raw-skinned genre that has involved a wide range of idioms throughout the history of art. The exhibition is showing works from the 20th century and tells the story of the transformations of self-portrayal over time. As a genre the self-portrait has undergone radical developments, and often it results not only in images of the artist’s idea of his or her own identity, but just as much in partial images of our time, of how we see ourselves in general.
• The development of the self-portrait. – At the beginning of the 20th century the tradition was influenced by Romanticism’s idea of ‘the creative genius’, and the self-portrait was by and large viewed as a representation af the artist’s mental, existential, and social state. But that picture was soon to change – among other things as a result of the burgeoning psycho-analytical theories – and the self-portrait became problematical.
Today's increasing self-reflection is evident in various ways in the work of the artists: the self-portrait has the character of an investigation rather than an image of one true, absolute identity – it is made up of aspects of identity and elements in an ongoing self-creation. Historically, identity has been about one’s origins and affiliations, for example one’s social, family and professional back­ground, but in the modern age, when the portraits of the exhibition have been created, the boundaries have become much more fluid and individual – not to speak of the new social media and networks where identity often emerges as partly constructed and staged.
• The 9 categories of the exhibition. – The Artist in the studio, the first classic group of works, shows e.g. examples of the artist shown with easel, brush and palette – here we see works by Picasso, Gabriele Münter and Marc Chagall, for example.
The category Pioneers shows works by the early modernists, including Edvard Munch, Richard Gerstl and Frida Kahlo…"

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