Kistefos-Museet Sculpture Park

Kistefos, Norway's preeminent home for contemporary sculpture since the late nineteen-nineties, offers globally-recognized artworks in a spectacular and atmospheric rural setting. The museum's principal purpose is to preserve and develop what is today a technical and industrial monument of national importance. This book is the museum's first major publication about its collection and not only documents works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Tony Cragg and Lynda Benglis, among many others in the collection, but also marks the opening of a new building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) architects. It offers extensive written and visual material on the beautiful and innovative "twisted bridge" exhibition space that will open to the public in the summer of 2019. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of Kistefos' history, collection and architecture through essays that are accompanied by specially-commissioned images by renowned photographer Hélène Binet.

Summary

Kistefos, Norway’s preeminent home for contemporary sculpture since the late nineteen-nineties, offers globally-recognized artworks in a spectacular and atmospheric rural setting. The museum’s principal purpose is to preserve and develop what is today a technical and industrial monument of national importance. This book is the museum’s first major publication about its collection and not only documents works by artists such as Olafur Eliasson, Tony Cragg and Lynda Benglis, among many others in the collection, but also marks the opening of a new building designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) architects. It offers extensive written and visual material on the beautiful and innovative “twisted bridge” exhibition space that will open to the public in the summer of 2019. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of Kistefos’ history, collection and architecture through essays that are accompanied by specially-commissioned images by renowned photographer Hélène Binet.

Foreword

• Norwegen ist Ehrengast der Frankfurter Buchmesse 2019 • Buchgestaltung von John Morgan Studio • Beiträge von weltweit führenden Experten im Bereich von Kunst und Architektur

Product details

• Authors: Lynda Benglis, Tony Cragg, Ólafur Elíasson, William Flatmo, Thomas Phongsathorn
• Assisted by: Einar Aslaksen (Photographs), Hélène Binet (Photographs), William Flatmo (Editor), Anj Grøner Krogstad (Editor), Anja Grøner Krogstad (Editor), Kistefos-Museet Sculpture Park (Editor), Kistefos-Museet Sculpture Park (Editor), Anja Grøner Krogstad (Editor), Thomas Phongsathorn (Editor)
• Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.04.2020
• EAN: 9783775745710
• ISBN: 978-3-7757-4571-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 288 mm x 318 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 1911 g
• Illustrations: 154 Abb.
• Series: Zeitgenössische Kunst; Museumskatalog
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Plastic arts; Architektur, Skulptur, Norwegen, Zeitgenösissche Kunst, Architekturbüro, auseinandersetzen