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Rotterdam sculpture
homage to Oud and van Doesburg
| MARCONIPLEIN | 1983-87 - Homage to Oud and van Doesburg - perpendicular planes, constructed concrete sculpture, Marconiplein, Rotterdam NL | ||
| the MARCONI SQUARE | sculpture |
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Lucien den Arend sculptor |
Rotterdam
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"perpendicular planes,
homage to Oud and van Doesburg" architect J.J.P. Oud and artist Theo van
Doesburg
see the construction photographs and pages
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The construction
workers spent all day erecting the sculpture. This man looked like a bronco buster when fastening fifteen bolts which were to keep the
construction together.
Setting up the first two slabs took only a few hours. The third gave much more difficulty, as it was to be fit under the second and onto the first, and simultaneously lock into one of the three stainless steel notches in the triangular foundation. A third crane came into action to lift the whole construction in order to succeed. "If this would not have been successful, there would have been no alternative but to let it collapse. Even when done as slowly as possible they would have broken as they would come to lie unpredictably on top of each other. Some luck was needed, and we had it" Lucien den Arend
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In 1918-1919 the artist
Théo van Doesburg
designed the stained glass windows above the doors of the Spangen housing
project - blocks I and V - designed by Architect J.J.P. Oud.
The geometric abstract qualities of these windows inspired Lucien den Arend to dedicate perpendicular planes to Oud and van Doesburg. At the time perpendicular planes was being installed these windows were still in place in Spangen which is below the dike on which the Marconiplein is located.
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