Nils Dardel is one of Sweden's most popular artists. The Moderna Museet's exhibition Nils Dardel and the Modern Age stresses that Dardel was not just a dandyish eccentric in the salons of high society. In fact, he took part actively in the cosmopolitan avant-garde in Paris and used art to convey the early 20th century jazz era and the modern approach to all kinds of human relationships. Europe changed radically in the early 20th century. The region was being massively industrialised and urbanised, and technology introduced entirely new means of spreading ideas and communicating over national boundaries. The fleeting, ephemeral modern life gave rise to a heightened sensitivity and restless mobility, which was expressed in modernist art. The avant-garde was constantly looking for what had never been seen, and new isms were born head to tail: cubism, futurism, orphism, rayonism. Exhibition: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (29.05-14.09.2014) / Moderna Museet Malmö (21.02.-13.09.2015) / Turku Art Museum, Turku, Finland (09.10.2015-17.01.2016).

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