Rotterdam Element 4 / 5
White elements for Rotterdam
dated 2004 until 2004
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White Element 04&05
2004
'White elements for Rotterdam' is a site specific art installation.
2 trees / plaster of Paris
Size work: 35cm x 120cm x 100cm. Element 05 is at (+/-) a high of 220cm. Element 04 (+/-) 135cm. The tw0 trees are standing in a fenced inn area, which is part of a larger inner parking space in the city of Rotterdam. In big cities there often is the tension between buildings, living space and parks with trees. Often trees are cut down because space is needed (mostly for new offices of houses). In Rotterdam old trees are quite the exception because of the big bombings happened in the second world war (1940 and 1945). So seeing these old trees captured in a corner in a fence, let them had a special connection together which I reinforced with this White Element configuration, as they point toward each other, almost forming a bridge, but the middle part obviously is missing.
‘After’ means that the “normal” situation is ‘before’, before anything changed. After time means the white elements had a lot of things “thrown” at them, sun, wind, moving and growing trees, rains and people touching. So the White elements show their weakness, the trees survive this heavy ordeal (in which I know that plaster is not harming them).
Element 4 and 5 Rotterdam / After
2004
Element 4 and 5 for Rotterdam After ‘After’ means that the “normal” situation is ‘before’, before anything changed.
Size work: 35cm x 120cm x 100cm. Element 05 is at (+/-) a high of 220cm. Element 04 (+/-) 135cm.
Element 4 and 5 Rotterdam / After
2004Element 4 and 5 for Rotterdam
Element 4 and 5 Rotterdam / After
2004Elements 4 and 5 for Rotterdam
Rotterdam tree 4 and 5 / White elements / After time
2004
After time, things will break. ‘After’ means that the “normal” situation is ‘before’, before anything changed.
'After time' means the white elements had a lot of things “thrown” at them, sun, wind, moving and growing trees, rains and people touching. So the White elements show their weakness, the trees survive this heavy ordeal (in which I know that plaster is not harming them).
Size work: 35cm x 120cm x 100cm. Element 05 is at (+/-) a high of 220cm. Element 04 (+/-) 135cm.
Extension Inside / Outside
2004
Concept Outside / Inside:
'White elements for Rotterdam' (I decide to call the "white plaster block" an element) is a site specific work, which could have an extra concept layer of Outside / Inside. Which has not been executed yet. The concept could be applied on all white element art works.
"Outside model" plaster element on the trees and an inside model which represent the same white elements in the same position and high as on the trees outside. The holes in the inside elements is where on the outside elements the tree is "holding" the element. The elements inside are an exact copy of the elements outside.
The inside could be a gallery space nearby the try or somewhere in the same city / place as the trees. In that last case a live video system is viewing the "white elements" outside and beam it live on the wall of the gallery. This shows directly the effects the elements outside (weather / people / animals / moving and/or growing trees) have on the white elements on the trees and the safety inside of the art gallery.