Travel Journal: Day 22 🇩🇰 Copenhagen, Denmark
This is my 28-day journey of living a temporary life in Helsinki, Tallinn, Stockholm, and Copenhagen.
🇩🇰 August 13, 2019
On rainy Tuesday, Copenhagen looked busy to prepare Copenhagen Pride Week. I think it is the same gay pride festival as Stockholm Pride, but I’m not sure they have a big parade like in Stockholm. I just saw some rainbow flags on the street and people making a stage for the festival. Unfortunately, I have to leave tomorrow morning to go back to Helsinki, so I don’t get a chance to enjoy the festival.
I left two museums for my last day in Copenhagen: SMK, Statens Museum for Kunst, which is The National Gallery of Denmark and Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum. And I met two impressive artists, Vilhelm Hammershoi and Pierre Bonnard there.
I liked Vilhelm Hammershoi’s paintings most in SMK’s exhibits, especially the pictures he painted womens’ appearance from behind. I love someone’s back rather than their front because they seem to tell me more stories. Sometimes I wonder what story my back tells others?
“The conventional reflection of the outside world that drawing gives us is incompletely more truthful than the dry process of photography.” I heard Pierre Bonnard whispering and saw him who sang was not always happy wandering in his vividly colorful memories.
Visiting museums or galleries and getting to know new artists makes me really fascinated as if I just found a diamond in a gold mine.
Here are my ten diamonds that I found in Scandinavian countries:
- Susanne Gottberg at Helsingin Taidhalli in Helsinki, Finland
- Pentti Sammallahti and Jimmy Nelson at Fotografiska in Tallinn, Estonia
- James Nachtwey, Vincent Peters, Scarlett Hooft Graafland, and Mandy Baker at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden
- Carl Eldhs at Ateijemusuem in Stockholm, Sweden
- Vilhelm Hammershoi at SMK, in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Pierre Bonnard at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark
