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Wrapping up of Moore
The ‘wrapping up’ of Henry Moore’s Wall Relief No. 1 in Rotterdam’s city centre has started. If everything will go according to plan, the relief will be taken off it’s place on the 20th…
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Moore relocated
Today, Wall Relief No. 1 by Henry Moore has been relocated. Watch our image report.
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Henry Moore
Henry Moore was born in 1898 in Castleford, England. He decided at the age of eleven that he would become a sculptor, but his parents insisted he train to be a teacher. He started teaching…
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A game of combative aspirations
Wilma Sütö Like a huge sundial the sculpture stands on the quay; its shadow casting a capricious line ahead. It is a new beacon in Rotterdam: The Plait by Kalliopi Lemos. The sculpture reaches up…
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Z-Files XL: Rotterdam’s exceptional art collection
Sunday 19 June, 1 – 5:30 pm Free entrance, please order your tickets here Language of this event: Dutch Sculpture International Rotterdam and BKOR are pleased to present an XL- edition of…
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The Farewell
In Umberto Mastroianni’s The Farewell two highly abstract figures are fused to form a compact mass. The couple consists of segment-like and angular planes, in which intermingled legs, torsos, arms and heads can only be…
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Wall Relief no. 1
Henry Moore trained at the Leeds School of Art and in 1921 obtained a scholarship to study at London’s Royal College of Art. There he discovered the work of artists including Picasso, Brancusi and the…
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Seated Woman
The monumental bronze sculpture Seated Woman by Willem de Kooning is on a stone podium next to the large fountain on Hofplein. It is a rigorously stylized depiction of a woman, with a broad-shouldered torso…
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L’Homme qui marche
The genesis l’Homme qui marche (Walking Man) dates back to 1877, when Rodin embarked on John the Baptist. He made that sculpture larger than life and portrayed the figure walking, but with both feet flat on…
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The monumental bronze sculpture Seated Woman by Willem de Kooning is on a stone podium next to the large fountain on Hofplein. It is a rigorously stylized depiction of a woman, with a broad-shouldered torso…
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Standing Figure
The monumental bronze sculpture Seated Woman by Willem de Kooning is on a stone podium next to the large fountain on Hofplein. It is a rigorously stylized depiction of a woman, with a broad-shouldered torso…
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In the 1950s Rotterdam Municipal Council wanted to embellish the city, then being rebuilt following the bombings of the Second World War, with a series of sculptures. One such work erected in the city was…
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