AL in De Nederlandsche Bank
- Location:
- De Nederlandsche Bank - Amsterdam
- Date:
- 2003
- Material:
- 9 showcases with schulptures of soap, tar and feathers, polyester barnacles and words, plastic bags, paint brushes with cathedrals.
- Size:
- 2m x 2m x 0.5 m.
Solo in the meeting hall of the National Bank of the Netherlands.
The sculptures are placed in such way they got an extra meaning when placed in a show-case. Connotation: as if the exhibition could be a collection of ethnological artifacts and objects of natural history.
From left to right:
1 ‘Nostalgia and the task of the artist’,
2 ‘Pinocchio the Elder’, black rubber nose moves by the fan.
3 ‘Fracture’: Soap bones.
4|5 ‘Found of to be of to little weight’: Tar and feathers, a guiltily wardrobe.
6 ‘Cultural revolution’: A starling scull and bone cut out of soap.
7|8|9 ‘What you give is what you get’ – self-made boomerangs.
10|11 ‘Wordot’: word without a meaning only refering. So one can look and interprete without the limitations of inhereted meaning.
12 ‘Earthly Delights’ – Concreet light sculptures
