Monday, August 29, 2011

Danish Sculpture by the Sea

Every year in June in Aarhus comes an "art" show called Sculptures by the Sea.... There are art pieces that are brought in from all over Europe, so naturally Nate and I had to head down to see what the hype was all about.  Very strange stuff for the most part, some things that seemed bizarre and inappropriate.  Some were kind of cool.  I took pictures of the ones that I really liked (5 of about 65, not the best odds).

 Legs over the walkway, this one was by far my favorite :-)

Mushrooms on the hill. 

This one was cool because it was like a gigantic wind chime over a tiny creek. And when people walked over the bridge it would chime from the vibrations.

Yay bear on a bike pulling a monkey. He he.

Nate really liked this one... there were four of these around, and were about 7 feet tall so cool to look at.
 And then there was this one... No idea how we call this art, I mean had to have been tough to set up, but besides that... these are sleeping bags hanging upside down from a tree.. I just don't get it.
 There were other very strange exhibitions around... like strange hand-made stuffed animal things stuffed in trees or thrown on the roof of a shed.. or like some scaffolding and shipping containers stacked with some orange netting stuff around the bottom, not sure how that is art but it had a number... or like the gigantic "egg" on the beach which was an interactive art piece with a woman dressed up in a dragon costume hatching out of it over and over again in like 45 minute intervals (sooooo strange).

Interesting last taste of Denmark before heading home for 3 weeks...

Nate and I played some bananagrams before I took off.  Wishing me a pre-happy birthday, so lovingly  ;-p 
He is just sore that I keep beating him. Ha.

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