Kompositionsstudie til Langelinie-billedet 1923 - 1927

Editor: This is "Kompositionsstudie til Langelinie-billedet," a pencil drawing by Edvard Weie, created sometime between 1923 and 1927. It feels very ephemeral and gestural, like a fleeting memory captured on paper. What stands out to you? Curator: What strikes me is how Weie uses the sketch to excavate the deeper symbolism within the everyday. Langelinie, a popular promenade in Copenhagen, becomes more than just a place. The quick, almost frantic lines, what do they suggest to you? Editor: I see a park, maybe people strolling. There’s definitely movement and a casual atmosphere… but are you suggesting there’s something more encoded here? Curator: Consider the cultural weight of a promenade: a public space for leisure, performance, and social interaction. Weie’s sketching almost feels like he is divining for an understanding of these modern rituals and rhythms. What memories, what stories do these symbols awaken? The very act of sketching captures a temporal quality that echoes lived experience. Do you agree? Editor: I didn’t consider it that way at first. The lines felt spontaneous. But thinking about it, the incompleteness of the drawing could itself represent the transient nature of those encounters, a perpetual "becoming" of a place. Curator: Exactly! Weie provides the viewer the opportunity to bring forth their cultural and personal associations of a place in flux. Editor: That's given me a whole new way of looking at sketches. Thanks! Curator: Indeed, and Weie shows us how initial sketches contain seeds of something profound!