GRADUATION SUMMER 2020
Marie Engelhardt Sjögreen
GRADUATION PROJECT:
The Royal Cast Collection – Opening
PROGRAMME:
Studio 3: New Beginnings
CONTACT:
+45 60145805
mariesjoegreen@gmail.com
The Royal Cast Collection – Opening
Since the reopening of The Royal Cast Collection in 1995 there has been ongoing cut downs in the artistic and cultural field in Denmark. In spite of that, it is through art that society in many ways has become what we know today.
Today the cast collection is closed to the public due to savings.
With this project The Royal Cast Collection will be relocated and reopened for the public in a former limestone quarry in close relation to their geological origins. It is a historical and rough landscape, which represent the turbulent and complicated history of the cast collection.
Here they will function as the main resident together with nature.
Through Art, humans have been able to explore and express themselves. Art is the physical form of the philosophical thought.
The Royal Cast Collection is one of the largest cast collections in the world.
The aim with the collection was to let everyone have access to fine art without having to travel far away to explore it. It was meant to educate the people and reflect the art of its historical development. In Art academies cast collections changed the discussing of who the artist was, and instead discusses the form of the sculpture – thereby liberating the art and this becomes the starting point for the modern view of art. The Royal Cast Collection is therefore not only a piece of cultural heritage but also important art history.
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