'Curating the Campus' is a sculpture park in the making. Since 2001 we have offered a space to a leading artist whose work in one way or another enhances the mission or identity of deSingel.
For the Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (b. 1943, d. 2005, Basel), the perception of the work of art was, more than for any other artist, the starting point for his entire oeuvre. The main question was not so
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'Curating the Campus' is a sculpture park in the making. Since 2001 we have offered a space to a leading artist whose work in one way or another enhances the mission or identity of deSingel.
For the Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (b. 1943, d. 2005, Basel), the perception of the work of art was, more than for any other artist, the starting point for his entire oeuvre. The main question was not so much 'what', as 'how' we perceive a work of art. In his early studies from the seventies he obsessively analysed the work of Paul Cézanne and Donald Judd, which he incorporated into publications and abstract paintings. In May 2005, as part of 'Curating the Campus', we installed his work 'Maar ik/de wereld/ik zie/jou' on a facade in one of deSingel's inner gardens. This poetic sentence connects the object - 'world' - to the subject/observer - 'I'. The characters are interchangeable and are in constant dialogue with one another. This work was conceived for the exhibition 'Orbis Terrarum - cartografie en hedendaagse kunst' in the Plantin-Moretus Museum (2000) and for three months could be seen on the wall of facade of the pedestrian tunnel at St Jansvliet in Antwerp, a location with a view of the harbour, the perfect symbol of world-orientation. At deSingel the work is displayed in a more enclosed and introverted spatial setting. The sentence here refers therefore to a more imaginary world. The text urges one to view the world more openly and to look across borders. It offers catharsis and puts man in a broader context.
Maar ik / de wereld / ik zie / jou, 2000
illuminated text on the facade of the inner garden
300 x 576 x 30
installed in 2005
Garden deSingel
deSingel Antwerp
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