Outsider Art

Rogaland Kunstmuseum (Art Museum)

02.11.08-11.01.09

Classic works form Hans Prinzhorn collection.

Link: http://www.rkm.no/ (click on English at the top)

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The Prinzhorn Collection

Overview

This "other" view of life appears to be quite hermetic, yet we for our part are generally unaware of the relativity of our own thinking, as laid down and shared by the society we live in.

These works enable us to experience an underlying dimension of humanity that is potentially present in us all.

Above partial description from this Link: http://prinzhorn.uni-hd.de/im_ueberblick_eng.shtml

Examples from this link - photos following from The Prinzhorn Collection webpage, they are not on Rogaland's Kunstmuseum's webpage (but there is a catalog at the museum here for the collection that's translated into English...)

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The Broken Column Sculpture Project

Permanent Collections

Permanent sculpture project

In February of 2003, Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts officially inaugurated Antony Gormely’s sculpture project Broken Column.

With cast-iron sculptures modelled from the form of the artist’s own body, the project spans the difference in height between Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts and the city harbour.

Simultaneously, each site-specific placement marks the wealth of activities and life that the city encompasses by being placed within different contexts found in society.

Their exterior and their form, their height over sea level, and the direction that they face, connect the 23 sculptures.

As such the sculptures create an imaginary column that is spread throughout the city, but simultaneously, they would unite the city if it were possible to see them together at once.

The sculptures are identical, cast in iron from the same form, and have during their maturing process become covered with a fine layer of rust.

The direction which the sculptures face was established by the first sculpture that completely breaks the sea level, found today at the Millennium Square at the centre of the Stavanger inner harbour area. Following its line of sight, the beholder’s view stretches out towards the sea.

Note: description above on the Rogaland Kunstmuseum webpage, under Permanent Collections

m My personal mission, should I decide to take it - & while I'm living here, will be to find all 23 statues in Stavanger - going from the museum to the harbor...

Oh, there is a catalog of them & where they are too, by the way, in the Rogaland Museum - so that I don't have to wander around aimlessly in hopes of finding them like while I'm still alive...