Collection Highlights spring 2010

Louisiana's vast collection of modern art is presented in new ways each season. During spring 2010 a selection of popular collection highlights -- dubbed a ‘summit meeting’ of Louisiana icons -- could be seen in the West Wing.

On display in the West Wing were some of the finest works owned by the museum – classics by artists such as Picasso, Dubuffet, Kandinsky, Picabia and Pollock, supplemented by a selection of drawings. More recent Louisiana favourites were also on view such as Louise Bourgeois’ Spider Couple, Juan Muñoz’s semi-circle of small, Chinese figures, Thomas Demand’s Clearing and Mario Merz’s Igloo.

On the museum’s lower level you could Mona Hatoum’s Glass Bed and Allan McCollum’s 5 x 8 meter work entitled Over 10,000 Individual Works, which had not been shown for several years. As indicated by the title, this work consists of more than 10,000 small, unique, hand-painted objects – each resembling a cross between a hand grenade and a Fabergé egg – laid out on a table the size of an average one-room apartment.

The Louisiana Cinema showed the 1997 video work Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y by Johan Groimonprez, in which a sampling of historical film clips recounts the history of hijacking airplanes as a TV-show with commercial breaks.