
Zaanstad - steel construction | sculpture -
victory
wood, paint, pencil and plastic
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Marconiplein Rotterdam - homage to
Oud and van Doesburg
wood, paint, plastic and paper
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Terneuzen - pollard willow ellipse construction
- witte wieven
wood, paint and pencil
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Utrecht-Zuilen - weatherproof steel sculpture -
goals
wood, coffee and painted zinc
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Lelystad - homage to El
Lissitzky
wood, acrylic, paint and pastel
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Venray Netherlands - stainless steel sculpture | construction
- tangent circles
wood, steel and paint
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scale models
Scale models are not just reductions of the full scale situations.
A scale model, or maquette which is a term which has now reached
the English language, is a world apart.
On one hand a maquette is a representation of proposed public
sculptures, site specific sculpture, land art, architectural
forms or public art in general - on the other hand maquettes
are an art apart. You can regularly see representations of urban
settings, buildings or architectural forms made by people who
do not understand that a scale model is much more than an actual
thing reduced in size. You can't reduce color. You can't reduce
the relation one object has to another. The actual, full size
effects of perspective are impossible to reproduce on a small
scale, without the aid of special lenses or instruments. A maquette
of something is like telling a story about it or representing
it as an interpretation of reality.
A maquette should have its personal style, with specific characteristics,
in order to be able to evoke the same effect as when one were
on an actual location. A maquette of a proposed situation has
to trigger the imagination of the viewer. And only in the imagination
can one approach the sense of seeing something in reality. But
also, when evaluating the way a maquette is created, it can
say something about the artist who made it. His/her choices
of material, portrayal of the proposed location, choices of
orientation, use of color and the amount of detail - and/or
avoidance of it - will tell about the artist's use of material,
knowledge and execution of full scale sculpture or environmental
installations - and that is what it is all about in the long
run. |