PHOTO_TørskindGravelPit

Tørskind grusgrav sculpture park. Denmark’s “Great Robert”, the visual artist Robert Jacobsen, who lived in Tågelund near Tørskind, and his French colleague Jean Clareboudt, created the landscape sculpture in the late 1980s. Clareboudt had overall responsibility for the planning of the gravel pit and organised nature so that when walking in the area you can follow the sun’s passage from rising in the east to setting in the west. The landscape sculpture was inaugurated on 1 July 1991. Clareboudt and Jacobsen’s monumental sculptures place us as small people in the greatness of nature and in dialogue with heaven and earth. All sculptures are made of natural materials: Concrete, iron, granite stone and wood. The nine sculptures should be experienced as one large, unified work of art which includes nature and the surrounding space. The locations of the sculptures make it possible to experience their interaction with each other from different vantage points. Both the gravel pit and the view of the nearby Vejle Ådal provide new experiences with each visit, depending on the time of day and year. As Robert Jacobsen himself put it, the nature of Tørskind is “not for wimps”.