The wooden statue of Erling Braut Haaland, made by the artist Kjetil Barane, has received a lot of attention recently. First it was placed in a roundabout in the center of Bryne. By Arvid Mæland, the person the new news series “The Cowboy and the King” is about. He had not applied for that, so he was quickly ordered to remove it. Then it was placed on a roof on top of a company building. It was left there for a few weeks, before Jærbladet reported on Wednesday that it had disappeared. The disappearance was also discussed on P3 morning on Thursday. Listen to the clip here. The artist stated that he thought it was stolen. Now the project manager for the new documentary series, Otto Voldsund, says that news was present with a photographer when the statue disappeared on Monday evening. – We received a tip that the statue should be moved. Our photographer rushed out and documented it. I don’t know what happened next with the statue, says Voldsund. The Erling Braut Haaland statue was first placed in a roundabout at Bryne. Photo: Eirik Gjesdal Filmed in connection with the TV series The team is recording a potential season 2 of the series, and has been following the statue for a long time. In the first season, they follow, among other things, the work on a statue of the jærbow and cowboy Arvid Mæland himself and the circle around him. Now they are following the work on the statue of Haaland. That is why they were first there when the statue of Haaland was placed in the roundabout in the center of Bryne, before they were also there when it disappeared from the roof on Monday evening. – I don’t know if it has been stolen, but it is no wonder that there is speculation about it. There has been a lot of uproar around the statue, says Voldsund. The first season of “The Cowboy and the King” premieres on news on September 15, but it is not until a possible season 2 that we get to see the story of the Haaland statue. Voldsund does not know who removed the statue. He also does not know who gave the tip, nor could he say so if he had known, due to journalistic source protection. Otto Voldsund is the project manager for the documentary series “The Cowboy and the King”. Photo: Sindre Kirkaas Normann / news Excludes Arvid Mæland The owner of the statue, Tore Sivertsen, tells Jærbladet that the person who took the statue called him. The person must have strongly disliked the sculpture. But he has no idea where it was either. – Could it have been Arvid Mæland who took it himself, to create PR around the statue? – I’ve checked a bit, and it’s not him. So I can rule that out, says Voldsund. Mæland is calling for the statue on his Facebook profile, and writes there that he has not seen it. Photo by Arvid Mæland, in connection with the new documentary series “The Cowboy and the King”, which is about him and the people around him. Photo: Erik Waage / news The sculpture of Haaland will initially be auctioned off to raise money for the Haydom hospital in Tanzania.
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