The Norwegians looked into the modest past with the help of a 150-year-old house erected in front of the parliament building

A new art object has appeared in the capital of Norway. Oslo residents line up in line to photograph a 150 -year -old house that appeared in front of the Storting building - the country's parliament. The artist Marianna Heske, who organized an abandoned house, insists that this is not art.

Heske is one of the leading conceptual artists Norway. She found an abandoned wooden house, which is about 150 years old, in the area south of Oslo. He had to be demolished. After the house was freed from construction forests and was open to visitors, 700 people per hour come to it, writes The Local .

“This is incredible in fact. Something that hurt people for the living. They react so sincerely, line up in line. This is surprising, because it is just a simple house,” the artist says.

The most famous project of Heske was the Norwegian House of the XVII century, which she dismantled and recreated in the halls of the Pompidu Center in Paris.

“I never said that this is an art. Artists express themselves as their work, but this is not my work, I just transported it. I didn’t say anything. I just wanted to move the house. So. I didn’t say a word,” she explains.

The house brought by the artist to Norway, like the building of the parliament, were built about 150 years ago, and their unexpected neighborhood transformed them. “This is the old house of a small farmer, and now, in the new conditions, next to the House of Commons, our mind sees it in a completely different way,” she explains.

Marianne Heske sees the meaning of his work in reminding Norway, rich in oil, about his modest past. "Norway has changed a lot. We can no longer imagine a simple life that people lived in this house. They raised vegetables, caught fish, sewed their clothes and lived very simply, without chasing money," says the artist.

Heske declares that she is more likely a philosopher than a carpenter or artist. “People think that reality is fixed. But you know, this is not so,” she explains.

The farmer’s house was supposed to be demolished because he stood in the place where they were building a new road to Sweden. It belonged to a company that is engaged in road farming. The owners gave the Heske building on the condition that it will serve as art.

“The clash of the two seemingly incompetent worlds makes this experience so amazing. This is a relatively simple artistic strategy, but the shift in time and place should not be underestimated,” writes Kunstkritikk , noting that the Heske’s idea covers “politics, family values ​​and sentimentality”. Critics saw in the confrontation of the old house and the buildings of the parliament muffled protest, "as if the house itself crawled to beg for his further existence."

I must admit, the house aroused great interest of collectors, several of them have already announced their intention to acquire the building after the end of the exhibition in January. The art project of Heske is part of a larger project called Oslo pilot, in which temporary exhibitions of modern sculptors are organized in the capital of Norway, Storting’s website says.

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