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CASCADE: A new icon for Rotterdam’s Coolsingel
In consultation with SIR, the artist selected Churchillplein, the major traffic intersection on the central boulevard at the junction of Coolsingel/Blaak. From 6 March 2010, AVL’s work Cascade will be given a permanent…
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This Sunday: 50th Anniversary
Sunday 11 September, starting at 2pm Hofplein – Coolsingel – Blaak “Grande Finale” at 5 pm. at the ‘Sculpture Terace’ on the Westersingel On this Sunday afternoon, you can stroll from sculpture…
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Le Tamanoir
Thanks to its title, the sculpture is recognizable as an anteater, with its high back and typical tubular snout touching the ground, nosing. Without this title, the sculpture could be an abstract construction and the…
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Standing a stone’s throw from each other two kinetic sculptures by George Rickey, namely Two Turning Vertical Rectangles on Binnenwegplein and Three Columns on the facade of the City Theatre can be seen in the…
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Standing a stone’s throw from each other two kinetic sculptures by George Rickey, namely Two Turning Vertical Rectangles on Binnenwegplein and Three Columns on the facade of the City Theatre can be seen in the…
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Compared to the trivial object it is based on, Screwarch by Claes Oldenburg standing in the gardens of Museum Boymans-van Beuningen has metamorphosed. The immense scale gives the form an abstract quality. The sculpture is…
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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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Tribute to an Avenue 2015
Tribute to an Avenue 2015. Artists’ Films in Dialogue with the Coolsingel Sculpture International Rotterdam (SIR) again declares its love for the Coolsingel in Rotterdam with the exhibition Tribute to an Avenue. Once more, SIR…
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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
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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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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