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Stillested 2 (A Quiet Place 2), Britt Smelvær

Botofte Strandvej 4, 5953

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On the Margueritruten

Stillested 2 (A Quiet Place 2), Britt Smelvær sits directly on the route through Fyn og Øhavet.

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Stillested 2 (A Quiet Place 2), Britt Smelvær

Stillested 2 (A Quiet Place 2) Artist: Britt Smelvær Installed: 2002 N.B. An admission fee (25kr) is payable to enter the Castle Park Feeling small in the enormity of nature When the sun is shining and the warmth of its rays are absorbed by the grey slates that surface the shallow hollow that comprises ‘Stillested 2’, both people and sheep can feel it is a good place to be. And if it rains, rainwater collects in a small pool at the bottom of the hollow - ready to reflect the sun when it reappears again, or to quench the thirst of the park’s flock of sheep. To sit on these slates - both in the warm sun and in the cold of winter - to sit and feel happy and “small in the enormity of nature” is an elemental feeling which she carried with her from her Norwegian fatherland. The thirteen tons of slate that form ‘Stillestead 2’ were shipped to TICKON from The Otta Slate quarries in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway. Perhaps this goes a little against the principles of site-specific art, but Britt Smelvær sees it as bringing something, a gift perhaps, from home when you move to a new country. Britt Smelvær Britt Smelvær is Norwegian, but was born in Scotland in 1945. She is a graduate of the State Teacher Training College in Oslo, and later worked as a professor at the Bergen School of Art. She has always experimented with natural materials and has enriched Denmark, Norway, Great Britain and Indonesia with major art projects. Britt Smelvær has lived in Denmark all her adult life - partly in an apartment in Copenhagen, partly in a house on Langeland. Read more Read more about TICKON here.

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Is Stillested 2 (A Quiet Place 2), Britt Smelvær on the Margueritruten?

Yes — Stillested 2 (A Quiet Place 2), Britt Smelvær sits directly on the route through Fyn og Øhavet.

Directions to the route ↗