ARoS Art Museum by Architects Schmidt, Hammer and Lessen (2004).
A number of people I met on my travels had the ARoS Art Gallery as their number one place to visit on a trip to Aarhus and I can honestly say that it didn’t disappoint.
The main body of the gallery is encased in a brick clad square box, and designed to keep the visitors gaze firmly focused inwards. The experience of rainbow walkway sits in stark contrast to that of the gallery. Here the focus is all about the skyline of city of Aarhus below.
As I exit the lift my attention is caught by a wash of wavering blue light on wall just ahead of me. Intrigued, yet knowing where it was coming from, my feet followed by gaze onwards and upwards through the almost space ship like entrance stairway to the walkway.
I spent a good hour walking around and around, photographing people and watching as their clothes turned different hues in response to the passages of the red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple glazing.
I estimate that I took over 250 photos that day… just to capture the right shot! It was such fun and contained so many thresholds… and the art was pretty good as well.
