No mountains, no forest of any extent and a dense population of social democrats. But to Alfio Bonanno, an artist born in Sicily and raised in Australia, the Danish coast speaks of wildness. But unlike theirs, Bonanno's interventions are primal and raw. Boulders piled between tree trunks are lashed together with rope. A druidlike sanctuary is embedded in the side of a cliff.
Stones balance atop a web of lashed branches placed beneath a waterfall.
Like herman de vries, Bonanno is a kind of 20 th century shaman. Wherever he works, he seeks out the essence of a place. Here he lashed hazelwood branches into giant insect-like forms through one of which shoots a living birch tree. Trees, stones, and the artist's structures all evoke a sense of ancient energies and distorted growth. Sometimes Bonanno will take a small phenomenon and make it huge.