Mur og menneske
Living Walls
Ole Videbæks arbejde gennem tiden
Bogen viser et fyldigt udvalg af Ole Videbæks arbejde af arbejder fra skulpturer tæt forbundet med landskabet til udtryksfulde kroppe ofte tæt forbundet med skulptur.
Desuden er der to artikler af Gitte og Leo Tandrup.
Gitte sætter Ole Videbæks arbejde i kunsthistorisk sammenhæng med samtidskunsten.
Leo fletter Ole Videbæks skulptur sammen med Hamlets skuespil.
Men arkitektens sans for former skaber han rum som ramme om menneskekroppe. Det være sig levende, som bevæger sig ind i eller igennem en udsmykning, eller det være sig en skulptur, som han placerer som en del af værket. Hertil kommer, at Ole Videbæk er et vidende og reflekterende menneske. Han bruger sproget som en verbal skitsebog på linje med tegningerne. Her findes kimen til de endelige værker store som små.
Dagmar Warming
Direktør for Ribe Kunstmuseum
Ole Videbæk’s works through time
This book invites the reader to travel through the expansive landscape of Videbæk’s walls and people.
Pictures and sculptures, temporary and permanent, individually and collectively, offer us a connection with the landscape we are exploring, and with the places we frequent, meeting us separately, bringing us together.
There are also two articles, by Gitte and Leo Tandrup.
Gitte sets Ole Videbæk’s work in a historical and contemporary artistic context.
Leo juxtaposes Ole Videbæk’s sculpture and Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
His trainin, first as a moson bricklayer, the as a student at the school of Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, formed the solid grounding for his artistic work. His sketchbook, in constant use on trips and sojourns abroad, but unopended during his time at architecture school, has accompanied every step of that artistic career. Countless works have their origin in it, from graphics to sculpture, and from installations to monumental urban stonework. Videbæk is an exceptioanl artist, working in an unusually wide variety of material, through many different artistic media, from delicate graphics to monumental sculptures in brick and stone.
An architectural spatial sense informs his framing of the human body, seen as either living and moving in or through his structure, or as a sculptural component of the work. Videbæk is moreover knowledgeable and reflective, using language like a verbal sketchbook parallel to his drawings. Here we find the seeds of his finished works, great and small.
Dagmar Warming
Art Museum Director
Museum of Fine Arts Ribe





