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KØBENHAVNS LUFTHAVN, DANMARK
AIRPORT COPENHAGEN-DENMARK, AÉROPORT DE COPENHAGUE-DANEMARK
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Copyright architecture, art and photos © The architects, the artists, Københavns Lufthavn. Photographer: Claus Løgstrup
ART PROGRAM
1. Artist: Frans Widerberg, Norway (born
1934)
Dates from: 1998
Material: glass
Location: Pier West
In the long connecting corridor between Pier West and Terminal 2,
Norwegian painter Frans Widerberg and Danish glass artist Per
Steen Hebsgaard have created an equestrian statue of glass and a
glass frieze divided into three sections facing the apron outside
the building. The glass sculpture, made to scale, is the first of
its kind in the world. The glass frieze, entitled Arcadia, shows
flying people, horses and centaurs in beautiful colour
combinations, underlined by the natural light which penetrates
the south facade and creates reflections of the motifs in the
polished marble floor.
2. Artist: Viggo Rivad (born 1922)
Dates from: September 1998
Material: black and white photostats
Location: railway station at Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup
Because of its unique architecture and the materials used, the
Copenhagen Airport Kastrup railway station is unlike any other
railway station in Denmark. To emphasise its elegant design,
standard advertising boards have been replaced by artistic
decoration. Black and white photos by the Danish photographer
Viggo Rivad, based on a "human beings" theme, will be
decorating the large, noise-dampening walls for the first two
years of the station¹s existence. This unconventional solution
underlines the architectural quality of the station and is
understood by all, regardless of nationality.
3. Artist: Egon Fischer (born 1935)
Dates from: introduced in 1996
Material: aluminium
Location: changing locations throughout the airport transit area
"Looking for appreciation, not apologies!"
This was our starting point when Copenhagen Airports A/S was
about to embark on a large-scale extension project which would
involve large screen walls towards construction areas inside
terminals. In connection with the renovation of a number of shops
in Terminal 2 in 1996, when Copenhagen was Cultural City of
Europe, we introduced art screens as substitutes for conventional
" We apologise for any inconvenience" signs. Artist
Egon
Fischer created 105 aluminium boards (100 x 125 cm) in bright
colours and different patterns. The artist combines the boards in
different ways whenever a new construction area is to be screened
off. An infinite number of combinations is possible; hence the
name: The Infinite Work of Art.
4. Artist: Jørn Larsen (born 1926)
Dates from: 1998
Materials: marble and granite
Location: Pier West
In the eastern rotunda of Pier West, Jørn Larsen has created a
maze-like floor mosaic of black Swedish granite and white Italian
marble. The rigid, almost mathematical shape of the floor mosaic,
which has a diameter of 8.9 m, matches the architectural style of
the space, while at the same time forming a contrast to the
abstract, sensual world represented by Frans Widerberg's glass
horse and window decoration in the adjacent part
of the building towards Terminal 2. Jørn Larsen describes his
work as follows: "I have chosen the king and queen of
colours black and white for polished surfaces in which you
can see your own mirror image, my intention being to provide the
artistic decoration with a flexibility that goes beyond the
phenomena of movement inherent in the geometrical design."
5. Artist: Robert Jacobsen (1912-1993)
Dates from: 1993
(located at Copenhagen Airport since 1996)
Material: iron
Location: immediately to the east of Terminal 1
The iron sculpture entitled "Pegasus", made by Robert
Jacobsen, is owned by the New Carlsberg Foundation. It spent its
first years at Billund Airport, but in 1996 the Foundation
decided to let Copenhagen Airport borrow the sculpture. It was
placed in the forecourt at Terminal 1. Following the new layout
of roads and forecourts in the northern area of the airport, the
sculpture now has a central location to the east of Terminal 1
near the head
office of Copenhagen Airports A/S, where the distinct sculpture
can be seen by road-users as well as by passengers going from
Terminal 2 to Terminal 1 inside the airport complex.
6. Artist: Hanne Varming (born 1939)
Dates from: August 1999
Material: bronze
Location: Terminal 3, balcony
Hanne Varming¹s sculpture "Girls at the Airport" gives
the impression of two passengers who have stopped for a moment to
enjoy the view looking out into the high-ceilinged Terminal 3
full of travellers waiting to embark on their journeys. The
artist found inspiration for the sculpture in Paris, where she
saw two young girls leaning against a rail, waiting in the
cheerful attitude recreated in the sculpture. A similar example
of "integrated human art" is Hanne Varming¹s
well-known sculpture in the Kultorvet square in central
Copenhagen, of a natural-sized elderly couple in bronze sitting
on a bronze bench which looks just like all the other benches in
the square.
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Revised / Actualisé: 2007-04-13 15:24:12 -0400 / Heure de l´ Europe de l´Ouest