Ormen (The Snake)
The artwork Ormen is a slightly S-shaped wall of gray curbs. These vary in size and are often slightly uneven in shape. The wall is divided into two levels where the first ledge is wider and forms as a step around to the upper which is narrower and placed like a ridge in the middle on top. At one end of the wall, some stones have been placed on top to a highest point. These have been joined together into a round shape as if to mark a head. The wall is freely placed in the middle of a schoolyard.
We often see art and the place where the artwork happens to be as two different things. This isn’t easy to do with Gunilla Bandolin’s art.
Gunilla Bandolin has been a professor of both art and landscape architecture and when she makes public art, it often concerns landscape manipulations and artwork with architectural features. Sculptures that are steps, masses of earth that are raised and sunken, ledges that resemble amphitheatres or the topographic elevation differences shown on maps. She makes spatial, room-like places and landscape formations where people can walk, sit, watch, play or socialize.
When the decision was made to completely renovate Norrbyskolan, Gunilla Bandolin was commissioned to make a new work of art for the newly refurbished old school. By happy chance, the municipality had a bunch of old granite kerbstones in storage. From these, a ten-metre-long serpentine wall with large steps was built to create a new outdoor area for the pupils at Norrbyskolan. The entire schoolyard spreads out around The Snake and the children can both play and rest on the sculpture.
A stone’s throw away from the schoolyard, you will also find Pia König’s sculpture 12 delar i en berättelse eller… Se UPP där nere (12 Parts in a Story or...Heads UP down there).
Konstverk: Ormen (The Snake)
Konstnär: Gunilla Bandolin
År: 2018
Material: Stone, mortar
Placering: Norrbyskolan
Ägare: Örebro Municipality
Konstverkets position på karta
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