Planet Lofoten
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Planet Lofoten is a Land Art
Installation of the solar system
positioned in the open nature of West Lofoten
in Northern Norway
.
The Planets are made from stone
and range in size from Jupiter at several hundred kilograms to Pluto
at only a few grams, and ranges within an area of 30 km from Reine
at Moskenes
Island to Nordland at Værøy
Island. The Sun
is still in the construction process and will be a 7 meter diameter sphere
made from steel
circles, and will be placed at Reine in Lofoten.
The scale of Planet Lofoten is 1: 200 million.
The artist Jan Wanggaard
says about the project that he intend nothing with the installation other than letting it stay there and maybe inspire people who bump into it in one or the other way - as an artistic expression or a nice tool to help understand the size and proportions of the Solar System that we all live in.
The documentary film
Alt Flyter (Panta Rei) by Lars Nilssen follows Wanggaard during the realization process of Planet Lofoten over a period of three years.
The documentary won Award for Creativity at FIFA, the worlds biggest Art Film Festival In Montreal
, Canada
in 2007 and has since then been shown at several galleries around the world including The Louvre.
Land art
Land art, Earthworks , or Earth art is an art movement which emerged in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s, in which landscape and the work of art are inextricably linked...
Installation of the solar system
Solar System
The Solar System consists of the Sun and the astronomical objects gravitationally bound in orbit around it, all of which formed from the collapse of a giant molecular cloud approximately 4.6 billion years ago. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun...
positioned in the open nature of West Lofoten
Lofoten
Lofoten is an archipelago and a traditional district in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperature anomalies relative to its high latitude.-Etymology:...
in Northern Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
.
The Planets are made from stone
STONe
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Sin-Ichi Hiromoto. Kodansha released the two bound volumes of the manga on April 23, 2002 and August 23, 2002, respectively.The manga is licensed for an English-languague released in North America be Tokyopop...
and range in size from Jupiter at several hundred kilograms to Pluto
Pluto
Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun...
at only a few grams, and ranges within an area of 30 km from Reine
Reine
Reine is the administrative centre of Moskenes municipality, Norway. Its population is 342. It has been a commercial centre since 1743. Today tourism is important. In spite of its remote location thousands of people visit this neighborhood annually....
at Moskenes
Moskenes
Moskenes is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The area of the municipality comprises the southern part of Moskenesøya. It is part of the Lofoten traditional region...
Island to Nordland at Værøy
Værøy
Værøy is an island and municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Lofoten traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sørland. Værøy was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838...
Island. The Sun
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is almost perfectly spherical and consists of hot plasma interwoven with magnetic fields...
is still in the construction process and will be a 7 meter diameter sphere
Sphere
A sphere is a perfectly round geometrical object in three-dimensional space, such as the shape of a round ball. Like a circle in two dimensions, a perfect sphere is completely symmetrical around its center, with all points on the surface lying the same distance r from the center point...
made from steel
Steel
Steel is an alloy that consists mostly of iron and has a carbon content between 0.2% and 2.1% by weight, depending on the grade. Carbon is the most common alloying material for iron, but various other alloying elements are used, such as manganese, chromium, vanadium, and tungsten...
circles, and will be placed at Reine in Lofoten.
The scale of Planet Lofoten is 1: 200 million.
The artist Jan Wanggaard
Jan Wanggaard
Jan Wanggaard is a Norwegian artist with a wide range of expressions from pure sculpture to land art in a wide sense. He was World Champion in windsurfing in 1981 and studied Art and Design in Newcastle upon Tyne, England ....
says about the project that he intend nothing with the installation other than letting it stay there and maybe inspire people who bump into it in one or the other way - as an artistic expression or a nice tool to help understand the size and proportions of the Solar System that we all live in.
The documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
Alt Flyter (Panta Rei) by Lars Nilssen follows Wanggaard during the realization process of Planet Lofoten over a period of three years.
The documentary won Award for Creativity at FIFA, the worlds biggest Art Film Festival In Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
in 2007 and has since then been shown at several galleries around the world including The Louvre.