2008
Ph. Van Snick exhibits : Territoire de Voyage [289, 295], 2003 + intervention in situ : one concrete post in the space was painted pale blue, another one black. A / Stapeling [290], assignment of the Klimopgebouw of the ED Gemeenschapscentrum De Kriekelaar, Schaerbeek. Design 2008. Completion : 2009.
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On this Ph. Van Snick said the following :
[289] Territoire de Voyage, 2003. Installation view: NICC, Antwerp, 2008
To supply an artwork for the renovation of De Kriekelaar community center seemed a challenge to me. After all, the spatial volume of the protruding elevator tower is perfectly suitable for a three-dimensional painting or a polychrome sculpture—for a work that shows what preoccupies me. For this assignment, I tried to create an illusion of a stacking of colored volumes of different size, sitting on a black pedestal. The volumes above it are painted in pale blue, white, red, silver, green, gold, yellow, violet, orange, and blue, or the colors of my ten-part palette. The black of the pedestal represents night, the pale blue on top of it symbolizing day. This artwork thus constitutes, as it were, a synthesis of my work. The special aspect of the ‘stacking’ is that it does not occur evenly, but gradually narrows on the sides of the tower, to end in a frontal blue plane on top. The proximity of the cafeteria’s outdoor seating and the bustle of a crowd offers me the opportunity to give something of the work to the people, namely the black pedestal on which children and adults can draw with pieces of chalk and leave behind messages. [In : In Transit. 5 Jaar visuele kunst in Brussel. 5 Années d’art visuel à Bruxelles. 5 Years visual arts in Brussels, Brussels, Vlaamse Gemeenschapscommissie, 2008, p. 251 ; translated from Dutch]
[290] Stapeling, 2009. Work in situ: De Kriekelaar, Schaerbeek, 2009
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