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ARoS

ARoS

It’s super expensive but I love Denmark and this past weekend I did a photo tour to Jutland in northern Denmark. One of the days I spent in Århus and the art museum ARoS. Though the exhibitions are great I spent most of my time with the architecture and the playing of light and shadows in this fantastic cubic style building. The name is a wordplay from the latin word ars and the old name for Århus Aros.

The picture is from the roof walkway named Himmelrummet that was designed by Olafur Eliasson and is considered Denmark’s most expensive art piece. Completed in 2011, while the museum itself was opened in 2004. The design of the museum is inspired by Dante Alighieri‘s The Divine Comedy. The basement is the hell and the roof walkway is the heaven, hence the name. Himmelrummet translates to room of heaven.

I’m not sure if there is such thing as coincidences but in the car on the way there we listen to the book Inferno by Dan Brown. The story in the book also circles around The Divine Comedy.

We are red, we are white. Ha de Gött!

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Art is not a luxury

Art is not a luxury

I took this picture in Munich. The sign was sitting over the Kunstpavillon (Art Pavilion) in the Alter Botanischer Garten (Old Bothical Garden).

What do you think? Is art only for those with more than they need, or is art needed for all of us.

Art is everywhere, just look around. Ha de Gött!

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Explore the Rock Carvings of Tanum: A UNESCO Heritage Site

Explore the Rock Carvings of Tanum: A UNESCO Heritage Site

I live close to one of the UNESCO listed World Heritage sites. Rock Carvings in Tanum and Vitlycke Museum. This area has the highest concentration of rock carvings in Europe. Rock carvings, also called petroglyphs, are knocked with small stones, knocking stones, into the rock during pre historic times. They can be found all over the world but the highest concentration are found in Africa, Scandinavia, Siberia, and Australia. New carvings are discovered daily by archaeologists and the public. As the with all art, interpretation is in the eyes of the beholder even if there is a scientific approach to what the carvings mean. Even so the images triggers the imagination to what made the people to make the effort. Faith or just a wish to be immortalised.

If you want to take a step back in time, to the bronze age when most of the carvings were made. The Vitlycke museum has a reconstructed bronze age village built up with two long houses, storage huts and work sheds. The village is next to the rock carvings in the Tanum World heritage area. You can visit all year around but in summer high season there are guides to explain and let you try craftmanship from that time. The Nordic Bronze age is considered to have lasted from 1700 to 500 BC.

Fun fact. The museum building was inaugurated on the same day my oldest son was born. In a blizzard on April 4 1998 and he also worked there for three summers. Do check out his YouTube channel Hemläxa where he made a series on the Swedish farmers history where episode one has section from Vitlycke. In Swedish but you can use the auto subtitle function in a language you prefer. https://youtu.be/6ff1wRQMwM8?si=MsxFVjlZJu0_Nbdm

Find out more from the museum website https://www.vitlyckemuseum.se/en/.

You have to look back to understand the future, ha de Gött!

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