OUT OF THE DARK
Welcome to a world of drama and drapery, theater and the Thirty Years' War, sensuality and strong emotions! For the first time ever, SMK presents a major exhibition on Baroque art in collaboration with Concerto Copenhagen.
Out of Darkness is a sensory exhibition where SMK invites you on a journey back to 17th century Europe. The exhibition takes you close to Baroque artists and music. Concerto Copenhagen helps to set the mood as the story unfolds about a time of alchemy, faith and superstition, witch hunts, war, capitalism and climate challenges.
The exhibition is based on SMK's large collection of European paintings and paper art from the 1600s. Many of the works of art have been brought out of the museum's storerooms and taken from Danish castles, and can now be experienced for the first time in over 100 years!
SMK sheds new light on an exuberant and turbulent period that may have more similarities to our time than MON might think! Muted music from two Concerto Copenhagen albums - "Armonico Tributo" and "Ich bin die Auferstehung" - sets the mood in some of the exhibition spaces.
The transition from Renaissance to Baroque saw such fundamental changes in Western European music that we are still living with the consequences, so to speak. The changes are born of the same new currents and ideas that underpin painting, where concepts such as rhetoric and pathos are included.
Out of Darkness will be celebrated with an exhibition opening at SMK Friday on May 26th, where Concerto Copenhagen, among others, will offer Bubbling Baroque and a concert!