Backlight: Playground of light

Foto fra udstillingen. Fotograf: Mads Dobel

Backlight:

Playground of Light

 

Welcome to a world of light!

To accompany the exhibition Moving Motif by Ann Linn Palm Hansen, you can experience an interactive light playground at Ordrupgaard from 23 June to 9 August. Backlight is a collaboration between Ordrupgaard and a group of students from the Masters programme in Lighting Design at Aalborg University. The project explores the boundaries between design and visual art while creating connections between Ordrupgaard and a technical design education.

Seven students have each interpreted works from the special exhibition Moving Motif by visual artist Ann Linn Palm Hansen. Over the course of five days, they developed interactive light installations during an intensive open workshop at the museum.

Coloured shadows spread in every direction around the visitor, reflecting motifs such as Figures in Rotation and inviting visitors to become co-creators as their own bodies form colourful shadow tableaux. The exhibition gallery becomes a landscape of coloured light, where visitors are free to move playfully between the installations.

We invite you to step into these interpretations of Ann Linn Palm Hansen’s works and immerse yourself in her colours and forms.

Here you can

run

                       dance

jump

                        spin around

You are the one who shapes the artworks.

Explore freely, or lie down on a soft blanket and dream yourself into the colours that surround you.

The Light Playground is designed to engage all visitors, with a particular focus on children, who become active participants as their bodies create images of colour and form on the walls and floor. The aim is to expand the exhibition experience by bringing the viewer’s body into play and allowing them to step into the artwork’s colours.

The project also seeks to spark curiosity about colour and form theory by encouraging visitors to experiment with creating shadow tableaux. Through playful exploration of the world of colour, visitors gain a deeper understanding of how colours interact and how creative forms emerge.

The Light Playground is located in Gallery 2 of the museum, just downstairs from the special exhibition.

 

Designers

Ioanna Adamopoulou

Blas Baccarelli

Anna Bové

Nirvana Keyvani Jam

Laura Agnieszka Róg

Gosia Wybieralska

&

thank you t0 lightdesigner Arthur van der Zaag for cunsulting

Foto fra udstillingen. Fotograf: Mads Dobel

JEPPE HEIN – WATER PAVILION

JEPPE HEIN – WATER PAVILION

Jeppe Hein’s spectacular new installation Water Pavilion Ordrupgaard is visible already upon arrival in the foyer where the delightful and lively movements of the cascading water spark curiosity and lead the eye out into the park. As a festive prelude, attention is thus drawn to the park’s sensuous art experiences which run parallel to the classical presentation of the galleries. With Water Pavilion Ordrupgaard the museum also adds another iconic work to the park’s ever-growing collection.

Jeppe Hein (b.1974) has made a name for himself internationally with participatory artworks that encourage the audience to playfully engage with art and to start a dialogue with each other. At the crossroads between art, architecture and technical inventions Hein creates works that are usually rooted in a simple pared-down idea, and often in one or more geometric shapes. The artistic expression thus harks back to the conceptual and minimalist art of the 1970s, but Hein’s works are intended for interaction and are meant to be experienced physically. They thus have intuitive appeal to both children and adults – typically containing an element of humour and one or more moments of surprise. The water pavilion provides an additional opportunity to not only see the surroundings from unusual vistas, but also hide inside the water enclosure. 

LIQUID ARCHITECHTURE

This is also the case with Water Pavilion Ordrupgaard which is built around an oval outline from which numerous jets of water create water walls that alternately rise and fall. The water walls, which arrive at a maximum height of 2.2 meters, are constantly moving, creating new, ever-changing spaces that you can choose to enter, only to find yourself surrounded by a wall of cascading water. Whether you choose to walk about in the pavilion dry-shod or jump straight into the waters depends entirely on your temperament and personal inclinations.

A SOCIAL SCULPTURE

“Ideally, the installation promotes communication and empathy among the people who choose to let themselves be embraced by the circle of water,” states Jeppe Hein.

Water Pavilion Ordrupgaard also forms a spatial constellation where children and adults can feel connected through play. This also applies to those of the visitors who do not already know each other. For the collective experience will give rise to new, spontaneous encounters across generations, just as cultural and linguistic barriers will be broken down in the direct sensory encounter with art. In addition, you become aware of your own as well as other people’s boundaries: How far will you go when playing along? Do you step right into the work, or do you remain on the periphery?

A NEW INSTALLATION IN THE ART PARK

The water pavilion is a beautiful addition to the park’s other works, all created by high-profile contemporary artists with play and interaction in mind. Here touching, climbing and jumping on the art is allowed, making the park’s works a refreshing complement to the more traditional museum experience inside.

Jeppe Hein is already represented with two works: 1 Dimensional Mirror Mobile, 2009 and Semicircular Mirror Labyrinth II, 2013.

The park also includes works by Olafur Eliasson, Terunobu Fujimori, Carsten Höller, Klara Kristalova, Henry Krokatsis, Randi & Katrine, Tomas Saraceno, Simon Starling, Doug & Mike Starn and Eva Sørensen.

ABOUT WATER PAVILION ORDRUPGAARD

The oval outline of the water pavilion is divided into four internal water walls by water jets shooting up from the ground. The water walls reach a maximum height of 2.20 meters and randomly rise and fall, thus creating different spatial constellations.

Materials: Water, jets, nozzles, iron grating, stainless steel, electric pumps, programmed control.
Dimensions: 220 x 1200 x 1000 cm.

Water Pavilion Ordrupgaard has received generous financial support from Nordea-fonden.