Unveiled At Kistefos since 2006, permanently since 2014
"Homage to Leo the Lion"
by Marianne Heske
Materials Video installation
Artist Marianne Heske
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On a quiet day in the wood pulp mill, you can already hear Heske's art film at the entrance. As you move down the floors of the building, towards the old turbines, the roar of the film will give you chills as you approach it.
The film is based on the American movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) vignette from 1975. The iconic image of the roaring lion became a trademark for the studio as early as the 1920s, and the lion roaring has since been replaced several times. Undoubtedly, Heske noticed the Latin words that crowns the lion: ARS GRATIA ARTIS "art for art's sake".
The artist has worked on the film and added several delays, slow motion effects and repetitions.The changes give the viewer an exceptional experience of the lion's expressions, roaring and movements. While the slow motion emphasizes the majestic, the repetition of selected sequences helpsdefuse Leo the lion.
During work on the film, Christen Sveaas visited the artist's studio by chance. He revealed to Heske that it was his uncle Reidar pulling Leo's tail to make the lion roar. The Norwegian-born architect worked for MGM and happened to be in the studio when the recording of the famous roar was taped. However, Leo was not cooperative. Reidar went and pulled the tail of the lion, Leo roared, and the rest is history.
Unfortunately, the installation is unavailable for the 2020 season.
01 Ståle Kyllingstad, Installation
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02 Nils Aas, Consul Anders Sveaas, 1840-1917
03 Nico Widerberg, Time
04 Beate Juell, Stallion
05 Kristian Blystad, Playing horse
06 Bjarne Melgaard, Octopus
07 Kjell Nupen, Stille, Stille/Mediteraneo
08 Kjell Nupen, Mediteraneo
09 Edgar Ballo, Blå tulipan
10 Anne-Karin Furunes, Christen Sveaas
11 Olafur Eliasson, Viewing machine
12 Siri Bjerke, Mounts of the Samurai The Third Day
13 Fernando Botero, Female Torso
14 Tony Cragg, Articulated Column
The energy and shape of the sculpture easily give associations to the surrounding natural landscape, especially the water and the waterfall's fierce power/energy.
15 Fabrizio Plessi, Movimenti della Memoria
This installation is placed inside the Wood Pulp Mill
16 Elmgreen og Dragset, Forgotten Babies # 2
17 Marianne Heske, Homage to Leo the Lion
The sculpture is placed inside the Wood Pulp Mill
18 Shintaro Miyake, Welcome to our Planet
19 Kristin Günther, Hesten
20 Tony Cragg, I'm Alive
This sculpture, with the fitting title I'm Alive, at first glance looks like a powerful creature meandering forward.
21 Tony Cragg, Bent of mind
Bent of Mind looks as though it is constantly growing and changing. The two profiles, which make up the sculpture's main motive, constantly change character as you move around the sculpture to see them from different angles.
22 Petroc Sesti, Energy-Matter-Space-Time
23 Magne Furuholmen, Hypnos Descending
24 Elmgreen og Dragset, Warm Regards
25 Anish Kapoor, S-Curve
26 Oldenburg og van Bruggen, Tumbling Tacks
27 Thomas Bayrle, Sternmotor Hochamt
You´ll find Sternmotor Hochamt inside the Furnace House, just outside The Wood Pulp Mill
28 Marc Quinn, All of Nature Flows Through Us
29 John Gerrard, Pulp Press (Kistefos)
30 Fredrik Raddum, Teddy - Beast of the Hedonic Treadmill
31 Fredrik Raddum, Catastrophic road Signs, Sun
32 Per Inge Bjørlo, Slektstrea, Genbanken
33 Phillip King, Free to Frolic
34 Jeppe Hein, Modified Social Benches Kistefos
35 Jeppe Hein, The Path to Silence
36 A Kassen, River Man
River Man by the artistic collective A Kassen took form as liquid bronze was poured directly into the waters of the Randselva river.
37 Ilya Kabakov, The Ball
The installation, with its location in the midst of nature, can be seen as a commentary on man's relationship with nature.
38 Tony Cragg, Castor & Pollux
With Castor & Pollux, Cragg takes a new and radical step in the development of the Rational Beings series. Raw muscle power and animal energy are just some of the things you experience in the encounter with this monumental work.
39 Lynda Benglis, Face Off
Benglis visited Kistefos and became inspired by the landscape and atmosphere of the site, Scandinavian mythology, and folklore. The sculpture can be seen as partly frozen waterfall, partly giant.
40 Yayoi Kusama, Shine of Life
41 Mark Manders, Silent Studio
42 Giuseppe Penone, Identity
43 Elmgreen & Dragset, Point of View, Part 1
45 Tony Oursler, Scat Skat Skatt
46 Lawrence Weiner, Stedsspesifikk skulptur
This sculpture is placed in two different locations in the park.
47 Magne Furuholmen, The Birthright
Text and letters have always been central as a pictorial element in Furuholmen's work. What happens if you deconstruct sentences, break them down into single words or put them together in new combinations?
48 Carol Bove, PASANASAP
49 Ida Ekblad, A DEADLY SLUMBER OF ALL FORCES
Ekblads sculpture is a fascinating hybrid of her artistic practices. The work is a sculptural collage made of fragments from her own paintings.
50 Pierre Huyghe, Variants
The work comprises artificial intelligence, 3D-scanned objects, living creatures and organisms, and offers something completely unique in the sculpture park.
51 The Twist Gallery
The Twist is a gallery, a bridge, and a sculpture, all in one. The 1000 square meter building twists into a sculptural form and spans 60 meters across the Randselva river. The building was designed by the Danish star architects BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and is named as a "must-see" cultural destination by the New York Times, Bloomberg and The Telegraph, among others.
52 The wood pulp mill
The production at Kistefos stopped in 1955, but the buildings and machines have been preserved. Several of the machines have been set in motion once again, creating a "living factory" for Kistefos' visitors.