Thilo Frank and 119 wood logs in the Danish countryside
EKKO by Thilo Frank will be revealed on September 2nd. 2012 at 2-4 pm. in Hjallerup, Denmark.
Press images attached.
On September 2, the Danish Arts Foundation and Hjallerup Cooperative will dedicate an art work entitled EKKO in Hjallerup, which is located in northern Jutland in Denmark. The work has been created by the German artist Thilo Frank. Ekko is the first of a total of three public art works that were the result of the ”Our Art” project for which the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, the Danish Arts Foundation, and the Danish Arts Council were responsible.
EKKO offers people a very special walking tour and sound experience: EKKO is built of 119 wooden logs, each of which is angled slightly, so the construction turns in on itself along a 60-metre corridor. As you walk around in the work, you experience a unique sound, because footsteps and voices in the corridor are registered by built-in microphones and repeated in the wood logs in a different form – as a twisted EKKO.
EKKO, thus, makes its viewers co-creators of the work. It was important for Hjallerup to have a work of art that took as its springboard the strong volunteer commitment that is behind the city’s major annual event, the Hjallerup market, and its rich mix of associations.
About Our Art
The Danish Arts Foundation, the Danish Arts Council, and the Danish Broadcasting Corporation were behind the ”Our Art” – an art and media project. In 2011, the project involved thousands of citizens throughout Denmark. First, people recommended over 1200 places where they wanted art. Then, designated art experts along with the Danish Arts Foundation’s Committee for Public Art selected three final locations: a marketplace in Hjallerup, a field in the Triangle Region, and the Ærø ferry.
Local aficionados, the three locales, the art experts, and the arts foundation collaborated to find 9 artists who proposed works. On October 27, 2011, the three works to be realized were finally chosen. The works were made by the artists Randi&Katrine, Thilo Frank, and Niels Erik Gjerdevik. Thilo Frank’s work in Hjallerup was the first to be finished.
About Thilo Frank
Thilo Frank (born in 1978) was educated at the State Academy of Art and Design in Stuttgart. He is known for his work with installations, sculptures, and photography. He has created and is interested in interactive works in which the spectator’s participation in the work is a prerequisite for the work’s meaning.
In addition to his education in Germany, Thilo Frank was a guest student at Copenhagen’s Academy of Fine Arts. Since 2007, he has been affiliated as an assistant with Olafur Eliasson’s work platform in Berlin.
More information - please contact
Head of Communications at the Danish Agency for Culture, Marianne Strøm, phone: +45 2145 2440
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