Metro Station Enghave Brygge
Permanent installations built into the station
date
2024
LOCATION
Enghave Brygge Metrostation, 2450 Copenhagen, Denmark
Commissioned by
produced in partnership with
Photographed by
funding support from
Statens Kunstfond
EN
A multi-part installation comprised of abstract reliefs, intricate light works and screen-printed onyx plates, With Madsen sought a subtle approach to architectural intervention for the Copenhagen metro station, inserting muted, twinkling textured elements which you may not notice at first glance. "The art immediately integrates into the existing architecture. You might only stop for the tenth time and think: What is the message in that? “
Collaborating with the Danish Technological Institute - using robotic technology to precisely position the individual light guides in their fine mesh structures - the works reference archaeological finds, geological phenomena and science fiction props.
“They're going to play with the illusion of what might be behind the wall, which is actually a very large hole in the ground”
"I hope that the art can provide a different aesthetic experience, which has a different scale.
I think that you will want to touch it, to find out what it is,"
DK
“.. Jeg udskifter eksistende væg-elementer med kunstnerisk bearbejdede elementer. De giver illusionen af at man får et kig ind bag den “facade”der dækker over at man faktisk befinder sig i et hul i jorden. Man kan sige at de elementer jeg sætter ind mimer en blanding af akæologisk fund, geologisk fænomen og science fiction rekvisit (en populær forestilling om fremtiden). De er på den måde syntetiske kostruktioner, der ligner kulturelle aflejringer og derfor giver plads til en forestilling om historisk tid og rum. De elementer jeg sætter ind i stedet er relieffer støbt i beton. I dele af reliefferne er der støbt ind lyslederkabler der fungere som pixels i et billede. Der er altså på samme element både et tre dimentionalt billede (relief støbt i beton) og et digitalt billede (trasmiteret via lyslederkablerne). Elementerne laves i samarbejde med Teknologisk Institut.”
Process
