(the work was removed in 1994 by agreement with the artist)
According to the Norwegian artist, Helge Røed, a landscape project must per definition is kept within a shorter period of time. Just like his own project in TICKON, which was scrapped after a year.
Because if a work is left to decay slowly (as is otherwise the intention with the art in TICKON), the area will be filled up with "building works on return", as he put it.
And Helge Røed's thoughts differed in several ways from the park's other artists. Among other things. by adding bright yellow plastic tubes that were suspended from a group of the park's trees. Seen from a distance, the pipes formed an oval that reflected the castle lake, Borresøen.
So while other artists may strive to integrate their works into nature, Helge Røed wanted the exact opposite: He wanted the yellow plastic pipes (imported from Norway, because the color had to be the right one!) to give the trees a contrast in material as well as form.
As a theme, Helge Røed's work was about time, change, transience - but also about energy and feeling.
After a year, of course, the branches of the trees had grown. Depending on the type of tree, some trees were blown up a lot, others only a little.
Røed had included that time perspective in the work. When the oval was no longer intact, the work had to be peeled down.
Artist: Helge Røed / See more of Røed's work here.
Year: 1993
Helge Røed, born 1938 in Norway, died 2018. He studied at the State School of Arts and Crafts in Oslo and then at the Accademia Belle Arti di Arena in Milan, Italy. Then taught at the state Norwegian art school and at the Chelsea and Slade Schools of Art and at the Royal College of Art in London.