Blindfold Gulating Plass, Gulating Lagmannsrett, Bergen. Permanent sculpture in steel and two-way mirror. 2011 Artistic consultants: Kari Brandtzæg and Ole John Aandahl. KORO. From the catalogue: Johnslien has designed a free-standing sculpture in front of the new building on Gulatingplassen that pays special attention to the building's function, architecture and setting within the city. The sculpture Blindfold is based on Justitia, the Roman goddess of justice, whose blindfold represents the ideal of objective justice. Johnslien's aim was to illustrate and materialise the complexity of Gulating's function as a court. The references to the blindfold and our ability to see are hinted in the open and closed surfaces of the sculpture. The sculpture comprises 15 triangles which turn around their own axis. The total length is 15.5 metres and the triangles have a standing height of 2 metres. Three of the triangles contain sheets of brushed steel, three contain two-way mirrors, but the final nine are open-framed. In this way the sculpture changes expression as the viewer moves across the plaza and around the sculpture's open and closed architectural structures. There are numerous references to post-war minimalism, for example to Dan Graham's glass pavilions and Richard Serra's metal sculptures.
First five photos: Aleksander Stav
Photo: Kristin Elisabeth Bråten
Photo: Kristin Elisabeth Bråten
Photo: Eline Mugaas
Photo: Eline Mugaas
Photo: Morten Mellegaard, Terje Grønmoe Arkitekter AS |
