In the Studio: Munch on the move

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch is best known for his expressionist painting The Scream. A pastel version of it fetched $ 120 million when it was last auctioned in 2012, making it the most expensive piece of art ever sold at an auction. The art exhibition Edvard Munch: Trembling, shifts the focus to his landscape paintings, revealing a very different side of the artist and showing the vivid colours he used. Presenting this exhibition on both sides of the Atlantic - in the US, then in Germany and Norway - makes the show open up to a wider audience. But what does it take for an exhibition to go on a journey? The Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany grants the BBC exclusive access to witness what happens behind closed doors, when art works worth millions move across countries.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.
0:05.0	In this week's program Monck on the Move, we unpack how an art exhibition travels to three countries.
0:11.0	Here's to this room for the painting.
0:15.0	See the report?
0:17.0	It's stable.
0:18.0	Hello, I'm Angela Liparous.
0:20.0	I am one of the registrars for the Clark,
0:22.0	and I am here of the registrars for the Clark and I am here in Williamstown overseeing the
0:25.4	de-installation of Edvard Bunk trembling Earth as we pack the paintings and works on paper
0:31.6	loans to go on to the next venue in Potsdam. meanings and I am a
0:33.8	works on paper loans to go on to the next venue in Potsdam.
0:35.0	My name is Margaretem Molikval and I am a registrar at the Moot Museum in Oslo.
0:40.0	I am currently working on this outgoing loan for the Trembling Earth exhibition and we're
0:46.7	now preparing for 39 works that will be traveling to Ptsdam.
0:52.6	And I am Susan Stone, in Potsdam, Germany, just outside Berlin, where the Museum
0:57.5	Barbarini will be hosting the exhibition Edvard Monk, trembling Earth.
1:01.8	As an arts lover and journalist, I have visited many exhibitions, and
1:05.8	it's always special to see one that's come from far away. But what does it take for an exhibition
1:11.2	to go on a journey? And how does it change when it's set up at another
1:15.0	venue in a different country? Let's find out.
1:21.2	The Norwegian artist Edvard Monk is best known for his expression. The of human anxiety has so far prompted museums to develop exhibitions exploring his psychology and biography.
1:38.0	Now for the first time this groundbreaking monk exhibition looks at his images of landscapes and nature.
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