Ridderkerk
The elliptical segments of the red construction find their counterparts
in two dimensional space as a floor piece on the playground on
the north-east side of the building. The angle the two make with
each other, is the first step in laying down the direction of the oblique rows of
Italian Poplar screens which would form a pattern of lines
across the paved areas.
The color was chosen in order to emphasize the presence of
the - in effect - concrete concept.
Farel - 1988|1990 parallel rows of Italian poplar trees and
steel elements - the red construction is the starting point of
the floor piece around which the
layout pivots - 40mm painted steel - 500x500x150cm - Farel School - NL
The rows of poplar trees are not parallel to the orientation
of the red sculpture, which orientates itself to the position of
the buildings. The poplars make an acute angle with the axis of
the red sculpture. But it is this sculpture which is the source
of the direction of the poplar screens. I.e. the two ellipse
segments, which are derived from this sculpture, have been
positioned to the north-east side of the school. On the
playground they have been installed as a floor
piece - on one plane. As well as in in this sculpture, as
the floor piece on the other side of the main building, the two segments
form a continuous curved line. In the spatial configuration -
above - the angle between the chords of the ellipses remains 90°.
While in the floor piece this becomes an
acute angle because the spatial configuration has been distilled
to two dimensional space.
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