Project for 39 million euros sponsors collector Christian Ringnes

project to build a sculpture park in the Norwegian capital Oslo has been approved, a year after the project put forward the idea of ​​an investor and collector Christian Ringnes (Christian Ringnes). In an interview with The Art Newspaper entrepreneur said that the park on a hill town Ekeberg (about 15 minutes walk from the center) will open by 2014 and would "make the city even more cultural».

Ringnes donated 39 million euros from his state to fund «C Ludens Ringnes», which will oversee the project. About 80 sculptures world-famous authors will decorate a garden in Oslo. Initially, the idea involves the installation of the park only female sculptures, but it was abandoned after a collapsed on the organizers of public criticism and even ridicule.

Four sculptor has already received orders for the product to the park - James Tarrell (James Turrell), Dan Graham (Dan Graham), Tony Ousler (Tony Oursler), and Jenny Holzer (Jenny Holzer). Sketches of 25 sculptures have been selected and paid for. Ringnes is also considering the construction of the cable car up the hill and about a restaurant, for which he had bought the mansion in 1927 on the slopes of the hill Ekeberg.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI

Sources : artinvestment.ru