Per Kristian Nygard, a Norwegian artist, has filled an entire gallery in Oslo with grassy landscaped. The installation, Not Red But Green, covers the floors of Noplace gallery and into the entry way as well.
This exhibit shows the relationships between unlikely environments, human response, architecture, and nature. It explores spaces and how they can merge, like this installation combining the architecture of an environment and the nature of a landscape. Constructed with wooden framework, the hills were then grown on a plastic sheet covered in soil and sprinkled with grass seeds. Depending on when you visited the exhibit, you would have seen different amounts of grass growing, as they sprouted during the exhibition time. Being regularly watered also brought parts where patches of soil were visible, but soon grass sprouted over it in wispy waves.
The exhibit brings on interaction when you enter, from feeling the grass to trying to figure out how this could have happened. As the artist says, you are “entering a space where everything’s wrong but feels right.”