(toppled in the 1999 storm and then scrapped)
On the lakeshore of Tranekær Slotssø, a fifteen meter high spiral wind harp once stood until the storm on the evening of 3 December 1999 swirled through TICKON and left a trail of destruction in its wake. At normal wind speed, the wind harp hummed, so it must have shouted and screamed as it stood there in the middle of the storm.
The Italian artist had built his wind harp, his Aeolian harp, from several thousand maple staves laid one on top of the other in six conical joints like an ascending spiral and fastened with wire and nails.
The harp was a significant focal point in the park, because in his works Mauri Guiliano manages to consider the near and the far with equal attention. This meant that in the TICKON park, the pointed shape of his harp was repeated in the spire at Tranekær Castle. Or the other way around.
In doing so, he created a dialogue between the manor's seat, which in Denmark is the worldly residence that has been inhabited for the most years, and his sculpture, which stood as if it had been shot straight up from the wilderness of the lake shore.
Artist: Mauri Guiliano
Year: 1993
Mauri Giuliano, born 1938 in Lodivecchio in Italy, died in the same place in 2009. Originally trained as a carpenter. Typically worked with sky-high constructions of branchwork, tied or braided together.