'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.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, Strasbourg) has since the early nineties worked in a wide range of media: film, spatial installations, scenarios for concerts, conversions of public spaces and parks.
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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.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (b. 1965, Strasbourg) has since the early nineties worked in a wide range of media: film, spatial installations, scenarios for concerts, conversions of public spaces and parks. From 14th October to 19th December 2004 deSingel presented her first solo exhibition in Belgium. Under the title 'Alphavilles?', she installed eleven specially-made works at various points in deSingel, some of them on a large scale. Not only did they comment, sometimes ironically, on the building's modernist architecture, but also, by the atmosphere they created, brought about a geographical detachment that was intended to stimulate the yearning for tropical places. One of the works, 'Tropicalisation (Garret Eckbo, Rio)' - a pool with light-blue mosaics, a lamp-post and a stone from Anatolia - was retained after the exhibition and became a part of 'Curating the Campus'. In this work Gonzalez-Foerster not only reflects on Léon Steynen's modernist architecture, but also makes an evocative connection with the work of the American architect Garret Eckbo, who works in South America.
Tropicalisation (Garret Eckbo, Rio), 2004
pool, lamp-post and stone in the inner garden
400 x 500 x 800 cm
deSingel lobby
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