Martin Puryear: Meditation in a Beech Wood
In June Martin Puryear's monumental, thatched sculpture Meditation in a Beech Wood will be reconstructed. In an opening among the beech trees, in a secluded area of the park, Meditation in a Beech Wood towers high, a five-meter-high sculpture in reeds. It is shaped like a headless, seated Buddha figure. When the sculpture was built in 1996 Puryear worked closely with master thatcher Adam Ooms who now, almost 30 years later, returns to reconstruct the whole sculpture. Visitors are invited to follow the entire process with several events during the building process, and on September 5 the project culminates with a seminar where the artist inaugurates the remade sculpture. The seminar program will be published in June.
Follow the renovation of Martin Puryear’s Meditation in a Beech Wood
Dates June 10–30 (Mon – Fri)
Meet the master thatcher Adam Ooms
Meet the master thatcher Adam Ooms, talk and “fika” in the sculpture park. (In Swedish)
Date June 26, 3.30 pm – 5 pm
Tickets Sign up here.
Seminar Martin Puryear
Meet the artist Martin Puryear for the re-inauguration of his thatched sculpture Meditation in a Beech Wood and a day of talks and workshops. More information is coming soon.
Date Sept 5, 10 am–4 pm
Kimsooja: A Laundry Field
Kimsooja's artwork A Laundry Field from 2020 has been acquired into the collection and this summer it can be experienced in the sculpture park again. Hundreds of white sheets, embroidered with monograms or decorated with lace swaying in the wind and remind us of the creation of a home, life and death.
Exhibition period June 26–Sept 29