LOVE & CHERRIES
- Poul Gernes in Aars

LOVE & CHERRIES is about Poul Gernes’ site-specific decoration at Vesthimmerlands Gymnasium in Aars (1983-1986) and deals with the artist’s famous ornament paintings from the early 1980s.

The book is an independent publication published in connection with an exhibition with the same title at Himmerlands Kunstmuseum running from February 1st until 21st of May 2020. 

Articles by

Palle Rønde Møller, former teacher at Vesthimmerlands Gymnasium and former chairman of Himmerlands Kunstmuseum. 
Bibi Henriksen Saugman, Cand. mag. and curator for the Gernes catalogue raisonné. 
Ulrikka S. Gernes, poet.

All texts are in Danish with English translations.

 

 

The book (21 x 21 cm) has 60 pages, three longer articles, many illustrations, historical photographs and reproductions of works.

ISBN: 978-87-998080-1-4

DKK 200,- incl. vat + postage

The book can be ordered from the publisher by sending an email to info@alterego-libris.dk  

 

AASE SEIDLER GERNES

“Now we’re only making Poul’s things.”
The last of her textile works are dated 1968. At that time, Aase Seidler Gernes packed her own work into a suitcase and placed it in the attic. She made a pact with her husband, the artist, Poul Gernes: whatever was going to be created would bear his name. But did she really stop? What did the suitcase contain? And which choices are decisive in art and love? The time has come to open the suitcase ...

(excerpt from the book)

 

Texts in Danish and English by:
Mikkel Bogh, director of the National Gallery of Denmark.
Nina Hobolth, art historian, former museum director.
Lise Skov, cultural sociologist, associate professor at Copenhagen Business School.
Kerstin Bergendal & Cai Ulrich von Platen, visual artists.
Niels Holt, author.
Ulrikka S. Gernes, poet.

 

 

 

160 pages
format 17 x 24 cm.
ISBN: 978-87-998080-0-7
Danish and English
copiously illustrated with works from the 1940's until 2015

DKK 395,- incl. vat + postage (€ 53 + postage)

The book can be purchased directly from the publisher by sending a mail to info@alterego-libris.dk with your name and address and number of copies.