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Edvard Munch's art, created from his own personal experience, anticipated and inspired a strongly existential style, which increasingly asserted itself from the dawn of the 20th century onwards. Echoes of The Scream does not aim to give a full, chronological account of Munch's significance for this period, but through the work of certain individual artists to show his manifold influence on art after World War 2.

The initiative for this project originated with the Arken Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, where the present exhibition was a great success earlier this year. With a number of Munch's central paintings, graphic prints and drawings as a starting point, the exhibition displayed works by Marina Abramovic, Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Erró, Günther Förg, Gilbert & George, Svend Wiig Hansen, Jasper Johns, Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Yannis Kounellis, Ana Mendieta, Antonio Saura, Andy Warhol and Sverre Wyller.

The selection on display at the Munch Museum is the same, apart from an additional Norwegian section showing works by Per Barclay, Terje Bergstad, Per Inge Bjørlo, Jørgen Dobloug, Jon Gundersen, Bjarne Melgaard, Kjell Nupen and Bjørn Ransve. The works in the Norwegian section have been selected by Per Hovdenakk, and Audun Eckhoff at The National Museum of Contemporary Art.

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