Via Munch, Van Gogh and Durer, this Helsinki exhibition captures the enduring power of the Gothic imagination
Briefly

"...only someone who never sleeps could keep tabs on how regularly brooding Medieval motifs pop up in culture."
"Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light will find Edvard Munch, Vincent van Gogh and the Finnish artist Helene Schjerfbeck in dialogue with 16th-century masters..."
"Generation Z 'don't share the ideas of older generations... But what comes from a Medieval Gothic worldview... is the passion of pain, the passion of yearning for the spiritual...' "
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