Open Air
Eyes on the Street looks at what cities give us: opportunity, connection, invention. Open Air looks at what the country gives us instead: leisure, relaxation, beauty.
Neither is complete on its own. A city that never lets you leave becomes exhausting. A countryside with no city to return to becomes irrelevant. These photographs are the other half of the same inquiry. Not an escape from what Eyes on the Street is looking at, but the counterpart that gives it its shape.
Louisiana opened in 1958 to give modern art a place in Denmark and to make it accessible beyond a narrow cultural elite. Its founder, Knud W. Jensen, asked architects Jørgen Bo and Wilhelm Wohlert to build around the existing country house, carefully integrating the museum with the terrain, trees and water. That idea is clearest in the quieter corners of the grounds, where architecture recedes into the landscape and looking at art becomes only one part of the experience.
