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Mother and child
Carel Visser’s expressive sculpture Mother and Child (2001) is an assemblage of various found objects and scrap metal cast in bronze. The individual elements remain recognisable: a folded steel plate, a doll, wire, reinforcing rods,…
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When The Lightness of Poetry
From 19 until 28 September a small Cinema was established at the Coolsingel 47. With a film by Alfredo Jaar and a choir on the stairs of the Town Hall, all early passers-by were welcomed.
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Corporate Entity
Upon its completion in 1963, Corporate Entity by Wessel Couzijn was the largest bronze sculpture cast in the Netherlands. Unilever commissioned the sculpture for its new office building on the Burgemeester s’Jacobplein. Wishing to introduce…
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Melly Shum Hates Her Job
On the corner of the Boomgaardstraat and the Witte de Withstraat, the smiling face of Melly Shum has become a familiar sight on these streets. Created by Ken Lum, this billboard has graced the side…
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Two Turning Vertical Rectangles
Two kinetic sculptures by George Rickey stand a few hundred metres from each other in Rotterdam. Rickey was born in the United States, but moved to Europe at an early age, where he came into…
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Three columns
Two kinetic sculptures by George Rickey stand a few hundred metres from each other in Rotterdam. Rickey was born in the United States, but moved to Europe at an early age, where he came into…
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Three Columns
Op een paar honderd meter van elkaar staan in de Rotterdamse binnenstad twee kinetische sculpturen van George Rickey. Rickey werd geboren in de Verenigde Staten. Hij kwam al jong naar Europa, waar hij eind jaren twintig…
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The Farewell
Umberto Mastroianni’s sculpture The Farewell from 1955 initially appears to be nothing more than the fusion of various masses. But having read the title, we can make out two embracing figures. However, it is impossible…
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Maas Sculpture
Measuring 182 metres in length the Maas Sculpture is an immense art work, but viewed against the vast scale of the Willemsbrug it appears to be a modest and playful arabesque. It is autonomous yet…
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Wall Relief no. 1
The brick Wall Relief No.1 that has graced the façade of the former Bouwcentrum (Building Centre) since 1955 was designed by Henry Moore. The relief is made up of approximately 16,000 hand-carved bricks. It took…
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Wilhelmina
The sculptor Charlotte van Pallandt was a friend of Queen Juliana, of whom she made several portraits. The sculpture of Queen Wilhelmina was unveiled in Het Park in Rotterdam in 1968. It is executed in…
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Commission
In 2010, Erik van Lieshout opened a ‘shop’ in the Zuidplein Mall in Rotterdam South, an area with a large immigrant community were he lived from 1993 to 2007. Van Lieshout did not sell anything…
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Screw Arch
Claes Oldenburg’s Screw Arch is in fact a design for a bridge. The idea for the bridge came about during the plans for a new Willemsbrug over the River Maas in Rotterdam. In 1978 the…
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