This giant sign is on the side of a mountain in Bergen, Norway. It is easily visible from the airport but you do not have to be in the airport to see it.
The letters are 5.5 meters high and bright yellow. They each weigh 20 tons.
An interview with the artist sheds some light:
"Icelander Ragnar Kjartansson won the art competition at Bergen Airport Flesland, and the artwork may raise some questions for travelers.
'It's my first time doing airport art. I am surprised and happy that I was chosen with my work. Bergen is a magical place for me, because it was here as a young artist that I had an exhibition outside of Iceland for the first time,' says Kjartansson in a press release.
'I wanted to make a work that said something about the feeling of melancholy in being a modern person, constantly in transit, from airport to airport and always with a feeling of being disconnected. The work is both existentialist and poetic. It is serious and humorous at the same time. I think Bergen is a place that tolerates self-irony. Everyone can put what they want in the question mark, and there are no wrong answers,' he explains.
Every letter in "Bergen?" are 5.5 meters high and weigh 2.5 tonnes. According to the press release, the work will be ready during the spring of 2017."
(Translated from Norwegian via Google Translate)
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