STATENS 
MUSEUM
 FOR KUNST

Carl-Henning Pedersen  udstillingen
ET  LIVSVÆRK
2003-2004

KUNSTNERISK ENGELSK TEKST

BILLEDER OG TEKST

Carl-Henning Pedersens tekster 
og museets oversættelser

TEKSTFORSLAG:
You have to accept the hand you are dealt. I have not starved, I have not suffered from unhappy love,  I have not had tuberculosis  - you have to be glad not having bumped into such problems. But the conditions of man? – you may live to be 30, you may live to be 50, or 70 or 90, but once your time is up it means – off you go! You have had your day. There that tragic undertone is which no one can ignore – especially not if you work with art. It will be lying behind.  

Man kan sige                      You could say 
smukke ting                         pleasant things

det er den vi lever af.          we need the earth
Jorden er altså også            to live, so it can be a
noget smukt.                        beautiful thing

ulykken gror nede               misery grows in the
i jorden                                 earth, in the soil

lykken, den finder man       happiness is an  
som noget luftigt oppe        ethereal thing 
i sfærerne.                           floating in the higher
                                             spheres.

Ja, mod himlen                     reaching for the sky

er det vel op imod solen       it means reaching for
                                              the sun

TEKSTFORSLAG:
You can say many beautiful things about Mother Earth, everything is growing, everything is blooming, we are living off it. So the Earth is also something beautiful. Yet it seems that unhappiness grows down in the Earth, whereas happiness is to be found as something airy up in the spheres. Yes, towards the sky, that suits me fine…in my interpretation I suppose it is up towards the Sun.

Der er yderligere én stor vægtekst på udstillingen, den kan besøgende så selv studere nærmere.