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Jacobsen in Oxford
Two exhibitions underway at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford have something of a link between them. One deals with Arne Jacobsen – the most important Danish designer who with this year marking the centenary of this birth, is being celebrated all over Europe – the other with three young artists, also Danish; Jakob Kolding, Pia Rönicke and Jonas Maria Schul who in their work, half way between garden art and landscape, turn their attention to urban space.
The Jacobsen exhibition places the emphasis on two of his major projects, St Catherine’s College in Oxford (according to Pevsner, a “perfect piece of architecture”) and the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. In both, the hand of the architect is evident right down to the smallest detail, the taps, cutlery – also immortalised by Kubrick in “2001 A Space Odissey” – door handles and furniture.
until 23.6.2002 How to be Modern. Arne Jacobsen in the 21st Century Concrete Garden 30 Pembroke Street, Oxford T +44-0186-5722733; F +44-0186-5722573 http://www.moma.org.uk
Radisson SAS Royal Hotel lobby, Copenhagen. Photo by Kim Ahm
