Sunday 1 May 2011

Ugles

After all the furore of the Royal Wedding on Friday (which we watched on BBC World News - loved the dress Kate!), a visit to something calming and restorative was in order, so we ventured out to Louisiana, this time to take Granny who is visiting for a few days and hasn't been here before...

There is currently a huge Picasso Exhibition here that stretches over 3 floors, with hundreds of his paintings, but my favourite piece was his little Ceramic Owl (or Ugle in Danish!), and I think he would look perfect on our fireplace! David Hockney also currently has an exhibition here called "Me Draw On Ipad", which I really wanted to hate, as I am not much of an Apple Fan (to put it mildly), but some of the artwork (shown on ipads displayed around a darkened room) was surprisingly beautiful, and I have to admit it's an interesting medium even if you are not going to get the same results if you print the pictures off...

The children's favourite piece of the day was a light installation by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama called Gleaming Light of the Souls, involving a small room with hundreds of constantly changing coloured lights, water and mirrors. Once I had managed to get S to to sit down on the floor and watch the changing colours, and not fall in the water, I loved it too, it is both beautiful and mesmerising.
Too much artwork viewing for small people must be rewarded with time at the Children's Wing of course, (which is the most incredible place for kids as I have said before), and this time they were encouraged to make their own Ugle's from giant mounds of clay, and have a go at drawing Picasso inspired still life with pastel crayons... Help and encouragement is always on hand here from the enthusiastic studio staff (although it looks like the biggest room on the ground floor will be shut for a while due to a flood)...

All the sculpting proved to be thirsty work, so it was time for tea outside in the sun where we watched a couple of hardy swimmers braving the sea below, whilst stuffing our faces with sinful Kartoffelkage (choux pastry filled with cream, a marzipan layer on top covered in cocoa powder, and called this because of the shape, not because they contain potatoes! The lovely Kitty at These Sublime Days actually made these recently if you feel brave enough to give them a go!) and chocolate Sandra Bernhardt cakes (a squat chocolate cone with chocolate mousse innards, a macaroon base, and an almond on top - thus called after the French actress, not Madonna's friend Sandra Bernhard by the way...).

Afterwards we decided to walk around the beautiful grounds and ventured around the back of the museum, where earlier Granny had spotted a huge slide(!). R&S spent what seemed like a good hour enjoying it all to themselves as I am not sure many people know it's here!...

Fish and chips on the way home at Rungsted, Friday night English supper style, and a spot of crab fishing afterwards (they didn't appear to like bacon or pasta this time either), for a perfect start to the weekend makes!...

15 comments:

  1. That slide looks amazing!! and I'm very jealous of the fish and chips. It looks like you are having a fantastic time! x

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  2. Sounds like my absolute perfect day. Picasso I find a bit droll after a while but live David Hockney. Great post today, thank you x

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  3. @MMM, Thank you, we are currently making the most of it as we don't know how much longer we will be here and where we will be going next!! You know what, the fish and chips were quite authentic even if they didn't come with mushy peas!!

    @kellogsville, thanks so much! It's a fabulous gallery to visit should you ever venture to Denmark, and has plenty of permanent Hockney's!

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  4. That is one massive slide, my two would love that...

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  5. @FrankieP, it's great isn't it... anything that gives them a positive association with art is fine by me!

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  6. Thanks for the mention! The fish and chips look great. Have heard good things about Rungsted and now I know there's fish and chips to be had, I'll definitely be putting it on the list of places to visit... x

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  7. The Little Uncles would absolutely LOVE that slide!!

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  8. @Kitty, you should definitely have a drive out, it's lovely on a sunny evening!

    @ElleandBelle, bring them over! It would keep them happy for hours :)

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  9. I loved Pippa's as well. You?

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  10. @Lijn, she looked lovely too. However, someone needs to have a word with Beatrice and Eugenie...!!

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  11. That's two posts I've read now about Louisiana and it really does sound fantastic. The light installation looks beautiful. Next time, next time ;-)

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  12. @Trish it's worth it for the cakes alone, let alone the artwork! :)

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  13. Emma, we're heading up to Rungsted today and I am in search of fish and chips. What's the place you featured here called? Thanks Kx

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  14. Hi Kitty, it's called Fiskerikajen, and it's very good... enjoy! http://www.fiskerikajen.dk/ Emma xx

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  15. Thanks Emma. It turned out to be too hot for fish and chips but a lovely day on the beach and cycle rides along the trails in the forest. Its a great spot xx

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