The task given by Højhuset was to create an artwork for the dining room
interacting with the soul and architecture of the house. At the same time, it should work as sun protection and acoustic attenuation.

Højhuset is a former folk high school (Herning Højskole). The modernist building from 1961, is designed by the architects Tyge Arnfred and Viggo Møller-Jensen and its surrounding landscape by architect Carl Th. Sørensen. Artist Paul Gadegaard created colour full site specific installations all over the house. Herning Højskole was initiated by the textile manufactures and brothers Aage, Knud and Mads Damgaard. Their vision was to create a high school for workers in the highly growing textile industry.

The artwork is inspired by the architecture, the high concrete building with its characteristic roof angle and its musically placed windows. Paul Gadegaard’s colours and geometric shapes and Miles Davis music which Aage Damgaard was playing for his seamstresses at Angli shirt factory, which later transformed into Herning Art Museum and now has become the Heart Museum.

A rhythmic sequence of geometric figures in wandering colours of lattice structures has been printed on the layers and panels of recycled polyester with different grades of transparency. The installation works as a sensual and poetic interplay with the rough architecture and the art installation under ceiling in the foyer, made by Poul Gadegaard.

The panels are hanging from two rails in the ceiling to enable individually and freely moving from side two side. The guests in the dining room are invited to play with the panels and hereby discover and create new patterns by layering as well as new progressing figure rhythms by extending and pushing together the panels. And when sunshine, the optimal joy of investigation of natural shadows in interaction with the artwork will emerge.

Højhuset.