Land Art in Lelystad
About seventeen thousand cubic meters of
Zuiderzee clay were at his disposal to make a land art project. It was surplus material from a drainage
ditch dug in the poldering process. The new building of the Test center
was to be built on that location.
Lucien den Arend made a curved dike,
reminiscent of the dikes around the Flevo Polder - and for that matter, in
most other parts of The Netherlands where the land is man-made. From the
beginning of the mound it increases in height from two to seven
and a half meters. On its crest he mounted a large (three by six meter - sixty
centimeter thick - red steel rectangular construction): its visual function being
like
that of a keystone or suggesting a launching platform.
1985|1986 land art project
with red steel element - 100x200x7.50m - test circuit and test center of
the national Road and Transport Department of The Netherlands - Lelystad NL (the
work has been demolished in the early nineties)
works © Lucien den Arend 2010
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