If you take a nice stroll around Stavanger, you may notice a few of these iron men watching the streets, amoung other places. If you didn’t already know, these rusty men make up “The Broken Column”. There are 23 of them to be exact, they are all around the Sentrum inside and outside. The Municipality of Stavanger, Stavanger Art Society and Rogaland Art Museum commissioned Antony Gormley to install these back in 2003. The project started in 1999, and took 4 years to decide whether or not to install. They always seem to jump out at me; I find them in halls, alley-ways, stores and on bridges!
All 23 statues are facing out to sea, if you were to stack them all up according to sea level they would all stand head to foot. The first statue stands at 41.41 meters above sea level and the last on is 1.23 meters below sea level (it is partially underwater on a rock beyond Natvigs Minde in Stavanger’s port basin). The statues are sandblasted iron and are cast of Antony Gormley’s body.
Here is a map of the location’s around Stavanger.
Maps via Kevin Paul Scarrott
View more photos on Kalev Kevad’s flickr.
Photo's by Kalev Kevad
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Fonda is an American who has been living in Stavanger since July of 2008 with her Norwegian samboer. She enjoys tea, visiting with friends, music, taking photos and traveling. She loves the rain, but really dislikes when her feet get wet - this is always challenging since it rains so often in Stavanger. Follow Fonda LaShay on Google+ Fonda is a design blogger - blogging about design, architecture, photography, and music. Check out her blog!
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gardkarlsen
Nov 3, 2011
I have visted most of the statues around town and I have posted my photos on this page http://gardkarlsen.com/broken_column.htm . Some of them are not very accessible – like the one located inside the air raid shelter on the Straen side of the harbor