Leif Engström, Lovisa Ringborg and Per Wizén participate in the exhibition 'Romantiken – ett sätt att se' at the National Museum in Stockholm, opening 26 September.
A visual world that frightens and entices, that opens up to unknown spaces. Which turns trifles into poetry and which invites you to take a seat in art. Discover Romanticism, a transformative era in the history of art, which left traces we still follow today.
The exhibition Romanticism - a way of seeing takes a broad approach to the period in the 19th century known as Romanticism. With it, we want to explain what romanticism meant and how it influenced its contemporaries. We also want to show that romanticism is not at all limited to the 19th century, but that even in our time we interact with many of the questions and ideas of that time on a daily basis.
A world of images that frightens and entices, that opens up to unknown rooms in darkness, fog and light. But which also turns trifles into poetry. Which stimulates search and longing, which exposes the depths of consciousness and which calibrates our sensibility. A visual world where the boundaries between art, fantasy and reality are approaching dissolution.
Romanticism was revolutionary in several ways, not least in that the visual arts invited the viewer to take a seat in the work of art to experience it on much freer terms than before. Imagination and imagination became the starting point for a new kind of visual experience that was linked to one's own memories and experiences instead of learned writings. The boundary between image and reality was no longer as clear. Through new worlds of motifs and a more realistic way of portraying nature and people, art became accessible to a larger audience.
