Decoration Details
Decoration -mobile
Decoration
Present name
Town, country
Kolding, Denmark
Description
exterior | scrap metal relief | decoration | gable
Completed
1983
Status
extant
Done by
Poul Gernes
IDname
PG-Z-32
Anthology
Finn Thybo Andersen on Sct. Michael’s School
Poul Gernes' climbing clematis consists of twenty-two "deep plates" with a diameter of 80 cm, decorated as blue flowers. The black vine that connects them is made of scrap metal. The reliefs were made from the severed tops of old expansion tanks, reports retired school principal Harald Rasmussen.
Finn Thybo Andersen: Poul Gernes Decoration Projects. London 2018, p. 128. Translated by Dan A. Marmorstein. Excerpt.
Sct. Michaels School
Photo: Finn Thybo Andersen
Sct. Michaels School
Photo: Finn Thybo Andersen