Bjørn Nørgaard
The Last Bee

2018

EB95

Bronze, silver
35.5 x 28 x 4 cm

Edition of 7, signed and numbered certificate

5.600 Euro

Request
more editions by Bjørn Nørgaard
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with ochre paint. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with ochre paint. Close-up shows a bee modeled in silver sitting on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with blue paint. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with blue paint. Close-up shows a bee modeled in silver sitting on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with black paint. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with silver paint. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with grey paint. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall from a beehive cast in bronze and coated with red paint. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.
Edition by the artist Bjørn Nørgaard. Honeycomb wall cast in bronze from a beehive. The honeycombs form an openwork pattern, in some places the contents of the honeycombs are still present in bronze. A bee modeled in silver sits on the honeycomb.

    The wall objects The Last Bee replicate the complex structure of real honeycombs, which Bjørn Nørgaard had cast in bronze in Italy. At first glance, the structures appear naturalistic, but upon closer inspection, individual bees modeled in silver can be seen sitting within them. Each of the nine casts was made directly from nine honeycomb walls with different honeycomb shapes and varies in color. Nørgaard refers to Einstein’s famous statement that if bees disappear from the surface of the earth, humans will have no more than four years to live when he writes about the work: “With the advent of modernism, the work of art was robbed of its representative potential. There is no longer a single possible authority in art that makes it universal. Every value is up for discussion. Has the discussion about the disorder of modernity versus the natural order reached its limits? Are there physical phenomena that are absolute? Is art a last rebellion?”1 The work was created in collaboration with Edition Møen in Denmark.
    Text: Eva Scharrer

    1 Bjørn Nørgaard in an E-mail to René Block in July 2022.