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He is also involved in the very construction of his canvases with the regular use of certain motifs in different variations and several versions of the same subject passing seamlessly from one medium to another.
Fascinated by the concept of metabolism, Munch indeed frequently expresses the idea that humanity and nature are inexorably united in the cycle of life, death and rebirth. In this context, he developed an original iconography, largely inspired by the vitalist philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Henri Bergson.
The exhibition is an invitation to follow the inventiveness of his pictorial thought in the whole of his work so obsessive and yet always new with this depth of soul that characterizes it in its content and in its form.
Edvard Munch
Madonna 1895-1896
Lithograph printed in black. Hand colored with red, blue and yellow
The Gundersen Collection, Oslo, Norway
Photo: The Gundersen Collection/Morten Henden Aamot