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TREE
VORTEX - A WOVEN WORK FOR TALL TREES, Dragsholm Castle, Odsherred,
Zealand, Denmark. |
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European
Art Nature Triennial
Commissioners: European Art in Nature Association together
with the Danish Government and Odsherred District Council.
Seven European artists taking part: Chris Drury, Herman Prigann,
Alfio Bonanno, Guiliano Mauri, Gloria Friedman, Helge Roed,
Jose Maria Ytorralde.
Brief: to make a work using locally available materials in
the grounds and surrounding forests of Dragsholm Castle. The
work was to last for one season. All the work was documented
with drawings, plans and photographs which formed an exhibition
at Odsherred Kuntsmuseum.
The work was a woven cone of sticks around a tall straight
sycamore tree, reaching a height of 13 metres at the point
of the first branch. The base was 4m in diameter. A mixture
of wild cherry, sycamore and hazel was used. The spiralling
horizontal sticks were left with bark on whilst the crossing
uprights were stripped of bark. The work was made standing
on the ground and pulling the structure up by rope as it grew
in size. The ground cover in May was a dense sea of white
garlic flowers. |
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