Photo: Dag-Asle Langø

In January 2019, Håkon Bleken turns 90 years!  In collaboration with the Henie Onstad Art Center, Trondheim kunstmuseum will celebrate one of Norway's most prominent artists with a retrospective exhibition. After the exhibition at the Henie Onstad Art Center in February, the exhibition opens at Trondheim kunstmuseum on 23 March. Bleken is one of Trondheim's most important artists of all time, not only by virtue of his vital artistic work but also by his clear and committed voice in public debates. We are looking forward to mark Bleken's great anniversary with the exhibition "Do Not Go Gentle".

Do not go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas, 1914 – 1953