In the Chapel Park, Sct. Hans Garden, Roskilde, a large patterned decoration has been cut in the grass. Together, visual artist Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp have created the large-scale grass installation “Mirakel” (after Josef Frank)”. The work is created by shaping the grass and leaving it to grow. The work is based on a textile pattern from the 1920s designed by Austrian-born architect, artist and designer Josef Frank (1885-1967), in which a complex and varied pattern emerges and continually develops by repeating and rotating a single element. A small part of Frank’s pattern has been transferred in a large scale to the grass of the Chapel Park by Finn and Kamp. Here, it once again becomes part of the landscape and visitors can view it from a distance or step inside it.
Miracle (after Josef Frank), Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, at Sct. Hans Garden, 2024.
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 5.5.2020
In Kivik Art Centre’s unique environment, visual artist Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp established the work Grid in a wheat field, in the summer 2020. Grid had previously been established in Amorparken in central Copenhagen in 2019, where a grid pattern was transferred on the lawns. In the squares, the grass was allowed to grow high while the passages were cut so that visitors could move through the work and thus get a different experience of the park. The work Grid was reestablished at Kivik Art Centre, where the part of the wheat field that leads to Snöhetta’s sculpture Viewfinder was cut in the same geometric pattern. The corridors made it possible for the visitor to move through the field to reach to Viewfinder, which made the landscape accessible in a completely new way. By moving through the wheat field the visitor experienced it up close, and not from a distance, offering an intimate experience of fields we usually only pass by.
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020
Grid – landscape pattern
Kivik Art Centre 21.6.2020
Grid – patterns in grass
Amorpark 17.5.2019 In May Maria Finn and landscape architect Jacob Kamp installed a temporary artwork in grass, Grid, in the Amorpark in Copenhagen. The work used the existing lawns that were cut in a grid, where the squares in the pattern were allowed to grow high, while the stripes were cut down and created paths where you could walk. To enforce the biodiversity in the city, the grass are allowed to grow high several places in the city’s parks and this was utilized in Grid to create a spatial element that offers a new experience of the park.
Grid – patterns in grass
Amorpark 11.6.2019
Grid – patterns in grass
Amorpark 14.7.2019
Grid – Patterns in Grass
Amorpark 30.7.2019
Grid – patterns in grass
Grid, pencil drawing 29 x 42 cm, 2018.
Mirakel (after Josef Frank)
Maria Finn and Jacob Kamp, landscape architect, have together created a work in grass for Olseröd’s Konsthall. The work is titled “Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, and is based on Josef Frank’s textile pattern with the same title. Frank’s title suggests that it is a miracle that a large pattern can take shape out of a few parts that are repeated. Finn and Kamp uses a part of the pattern for a grass work where a simplified drawing is transferred to grass that is allowed to grow high over the summer. Frank created textiles for the home, and when patterns from them are transferred to a landscape, they also enlarge the intimate space where they usually occur. The frames of the home are expanded and connected to their surroundings.
Mirakel (after Josef Frank)
“Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, Maria Finn & Jacob Kamp, Olseröds Konsthall, Olseröd, 2017.
Mirakel (efter Josef Frank)
“Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, Maria Finn & Jacob Kamp, Olseröds Konsthall, Olseröd, 2017.
Mirakel (after Josef Frank)
“Mirakel (after Josef Frank)”, pencil drawing on paper, 29 x 42 cm, 2017.
