Louisiana Museum of Modern Art exhibits works by Ed Ruscha from the UBS Art Collection
(Artdaily.org)

Ed Ruscha is unconditionally the hero of the artists. The exhibition VERY offers the Danish public the opportunity to get a better impression of the now 80-year-old American master’s work. In 2015 Louisiana showed an overview of the British artist Lucian Freud’s prints, also from the UBS Art Collection. The same is true of this first exhibition in Denmark of Ed Ruscha’s art. The works from the collection, comprised of drawings and prints, provide not only a general introduction to Ruscha’s art, but also insight into his sometimes radical approach to materials – for example the use of gunpowder and organic fluids. Moreover, the exhibition presents the artist’s legendary artist books, which are a part of Louisiana’s collection. For six decades Ed Ruscha (b. 1937) has explored the notion that in the familiar and recognizable one may also find the unusual and thought-