With Triennial 2011 pieces recently popping up all over town and then quickly getting hidden for the big reveal on the 25th June, it was good to have spotted a piece which they would struggle to cover up due to it’s shear size.

A K Dolvens – Out of Tune work for the Folkestone Triennial 2011 has just been erected down the seafront on the old rotunda site, so I grabbed a few pics on this cloudy day, but look forward to getting some further shots when the skies are blue.

Spacious will be at the Triennial Preview on the 23rd June, and hope to get some more video coverage as we did at the launch event last September.

Below is some text about the piece from the official Triennial site :

Since the 1990s Norwegian artist A K Dolven has worked with the idea of being at odds with one’s surroundings, and more specifically, for the past three years, with disused bells. ‘Out of Tune’ continues a series of similar titles such as ‘Out of Time’, ‘Out of Balance’ and ‘Out of Season’.

‘Out of Tune’ features a 16th-century ‘Tenor Bell’ from Scraptoft Church in Leicestershire, discarded for not being in tune with the others. It will be suspended from a height of 20m, from a steel cable strung between two H-steel beams, placed 30m apart. The bell can be rung by visitors using a specially cast manual handle. Being located on the disused former Rotunda Amusement Park, right on the edge of the sea – yet in direct view of Folkestone’s St. Eanswythe’s church with its eight-bell carillon – will further enhance notions of isolation, difference and being outcast, while also referring to a range of local concerns, such as the decline of the parish church in an increasingly urbanised society

and some photos :