Skarrildhus 2015 - the Stone Salmon, the Church Yard, the Raven, the Hawker and the Tar Ovens

The Salmon

The stone salmon at Karstoft Å (near Skjern Å river.

The Salmon, head

A huge stone sculpture of  the Skjern Å-salmon was created  at the spot close to Karstoft Å, Skarrildhus in West Jutland  by the Aarhus-sculptor Jørn Rønnau.

Seven Danish artists will use nature in the future National Park Skjern Å as a gallery for six Land-Art Works.

Karstoft Å, Skarrildhus

Land Art is the description of a direction of visual art  which emerged in USA in the late 1960s based between sculpture and landscape architecture



 Jørn Rønnau's giant 45 meter long stone salmon at Skarrildhus is not the only Land Art work in this neighbourhood, fx an area will be decorated with winding paths with small heart figures made of chausse stones and grass; a poem will be created about light and words; a poetic landscape with four small islands in a forgotten wetland -  and much more.

 

fish bench, Skarrildhus

The coming National Park Skjern Å has already manyfold initiatives created by local citizens, unions and traders, and there will be a cooperation between them and the Land Art artists.

information about the Skarrildhus-area, Naturplan.dk

Skarrild church yard.

The Church Yard

Information from link: 
www.airmen.dk/p353.htm
 
"In connection with the RAF´s first bombing raid to Königsberg (here, now Kaliningrad) in East Prussia Lancaster ME650 crashed on 27 August 1944 at
Clasonsborg in the parish of Skarrild. All of the crew perished. The German Wehrmacht wanted to bury the deceased "on the spot", but local Danish citizens obtained
that they were interred on the churchyard. This was quite an achievement from the Danish side, as the Germans just from 27 August 1944 started obeying an order to
dig down allied airmen "on the spot". Residents of the parish were accused by the Germans of being pro-English, as they showed up to accompany the airmen to
their graves."

the Raven, Skarrildhus

I always like to see the raven in the air and listen to its rough voice. A very clever bird. 

Info from wikipedia: 

The Raven

Some notable feats of evidence that the common raven is unusually intelligent.  Over the centuries

it has been the subject of mythology, folklore, art, and literature.  In many cultures, including the indigenous cultures of Scandinavia, ancient Ireland and Wales, Bhutan, the northwest coast of  North America and Siberia and northeast Asia, the common raven has been revered as a spiritual figure or  god.

Southern Hawker, Skarrildhus 

Southern Hawker /Aeschna cyanea. 
It is one of the largest dragonflies in Denmark. 67-74 mm. Southern hawker is a great flier, it flies with a speed of 25-30 km hour, while it is catching insects in a fangkurv (trap) which it shapes with its legs. The prey is eaten in the air -  you can hear the crunch! 

Tar Oven,  foto stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk

Tjæreovnene/ Tar Ovens
Near Skarrildhus are some interesting industrial buildings where two old tar ovens have been repaired and restored to remind about a trade which has died out long ago. The rebuild of the small industry was established in order to show the production of charcoal and wood tar and to communicate a piece of cultural history from the first half of the 1900s. The production functioned from 1910 until right after WWII.

      

photo Skarrildhus/Skarrild kirke:  2003/2015: grethe bachmann
photo: tar oven, stig bachmann nielsen, naturplan.dk 

Rudolph Tegner Museum , Zealand

- in a park called Rusland. 

The Rudolph Tegner Museum is set in the middle of a protected area just south of Dronningmølle on Zealand's  north coast, some 50 km north of Copenhagen. .The museum building was built to Tegner's own design with the assistance of the architect Mogens Lassen. Construction began in 1937 and it was inaugurated in 1938. A renovation was completed in 2003.

The park called Rusland, the Danish name for Russia.

The museum is built in concrete to an unusual bunker - like Modernist design. The building needed large dimensions to embrace Tegner's works many of which are of very large proportions. The museum has been built without picture windows to avoid distracting the visitor with views of the scenic surroundings. Except for a small window in the gable, all natural light comes from skylights. Concrete as a material was chosen for reasons of fire safety The facade bears reference to Antique architecture. The difference in scale between the entrance section and the main gallery is designed to create an overwhelming experience for those entering the museum and to enhance its character of a treasury.



Rudolph Tegner's art is very significant and conspicious with violent monumental  measures. Many were being provoced in his time by the size and the fierceness of the sculptures, maybe because they were a contrast to the classicism of the sculptor Berthel Thorvaldsen. In the heather hills surrounding the museum are 14 Tegner sculptures set up. In the building is a permanent collection of about 250 sculptures and sketches in plaster, clay, bronze and marble.

Rudolph Tegner started his combination of art and nature after he in 1916 bought the central section of the area. He later handed over the land with all the sculptures to the public. The area is protected. There is free access all year. The area is known as Rusland, the Danish name for Russia. It consists of undulating heath with scattered trees and juniper vegetation

Entrance

 

A dog was guarding the museum!

 photo Rudolp Tegner sculpture park, Zealand: grethe bachmann

 LINK:
http://www.rudolphtegner.dk/

Sculpture by the Sea 2013

I DO ART 

A galleri of the exhibition in June 2013 on the beach at Aarhus.  

What are the children hiding?

Oh, that's the funny Bubble no 5 by Qian Sihua, China.

Alejandro Propato, ARG:: Permanent Sunrise.

The dogs shall also see I DO ART...

Phil Price, NZL: Snake.

The snake and to the right: Heavenly Source by Arvid Hagen, NL.

Mark Kramer NL:A Moment between Insanity and Enlightenment.

children in yellow west.

Taking a break..

Orest Keywan, AUS: Above the Line.

Paul Selwood, AUS: Expanded Figure.

Mikala Valeur, DK: A Spacious Affair.

Jennifer Cochrane, AUS: Cube Stack no 2.

Anne de Harlez, ESP: Una cadena de bestos.( and the ferry)

 

A friendly contact between generations. 

The Glue Society, AUS: ONCE

Sahand Hesamiyan, IRN: Unknown.

Rintala Eggertsson, NOR: Floating Bathing Pavillon PYR

Steffen Tast, DK: Light Waves

kayakrs from the rowing club.

Ulla W.Klinge, B. Lund Jensen DK: Surface Reef. 

Byeong Doo Moon, KOR: Your Place.

Jackson Martin USA: Rooted.

Hanna Streefkert, SWE: Patchwork.

Bureau Detours, DK: USE Flotsam.

Vibeke Nørgaard Rønsbo, DK: Remind

Nina Saunders, DK: Heartbreaker (bridge with gold)

Andrew Burton, UK: JUG

Toni Schaller DEU: Beach House.

 Two little girlfriends . There were many children at the exhibition, and they seemed to enjoyed it very much,  for there were many funny and colourful things - and also houses to walk into, a moving bridge  etc.

Kerrie Argent, AUS: Evidence- the Trail continues.

Maurice Meewisse, NL: North Sea Driftwood Fence.

Espen Brandt-Møller, DK: Grain of Soap.

children on moving bridge

Marc Schmitz, Germany: Stories of Light.

Matthew Harding, AUS: Flotsam and Jetsam.

Yeo Chee Kiong, Ssingapore: "A Yoga and Pedicure Session on the Beach. 

This was the last photo I took that day. I had an accident with my camera. A sudden wave of salt water and sand where I took a break upon an apparently dry place until five minutes later. So I could not take photos of the fine exhibiton in the forest on my way home, but here's a link to  The Galleri for you.




photo Sculpture by the Sea June 2013: grethe bachmann