It caused a big stir, and resurrection, as a temporary work of art under the ARoS-exhibition of The Garden in 2017 transformed a piece of Mindeparken near Marselisborg Palace in Aarhus from green to pink.
One of the critics of literally attention-grabbing art event was queen Margrethe ii of denmark, who subsequently expressed his skepticism in an interview with TV2 Østjylland.
Aerial view of Mindeparken in front of Marselisborg Castle, where a top of the ARoS art work was painted with red and white acrylic paint on the lower part of the Mindeparken out onto the road and sparked a debate about the limits of free artistic expression. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
– I can see what they think, they think they do, but even to paint the grass and the trees, which must now be felled, and I’m not sure, is the most fix solution, I’ve heard of. It is clear that the people are being stirred up, said the queen Margrethe at the time and elaborated:
– I enjoy the art, where one feels that one’s mind is being expanded. It is annoying when something is only being provocative, she says.
the Director of ARoS, Erlend Høyersten, did not agree with the queen, and pointed out that ‘because of the work of art provokes the viewer, it does not mean that the artist has created the work solely in order to provoke’.
Margrethe observes, that it was hard to delete the tracks after the experimental work of art in Mindeparken. Photo: Ritzau Scanpix
In a current interview with Århus Stiftstidende drag queen now a little in the country in relation to its honest statement about the pink naturkunstværk.
– Yes, it was I may not have said. But you got some difficulty with removing the paint again, says the minister to the newspaper.
she has not been afraid to interfere in the debate about what is pretty in the public sphere, she does clearly in the same interview where she expresses scepticism in relation to the current construction boom on the city’s waterfront.
– maybe I am not so excited for all of the buildings on the harbour. They are stunning, but I like it when there are vertical lines in the buildings to the bay; in some of these new there is more horizontal than vertical lines. It seems I’m not so pretty, but it is an aesthetic question, and each has its taste, she says.
