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Het Viaduct (2 parts)

Irene Verbeek

About this artwork.

Behind two windows on the ground floor are large, black and white statues with abstract shapes on them. You probably see them sometimes when you cycle up the Hereweg viaduct, but did you also know that the shapes of this work are based on enlarged details of the viaduct itself? Anyone who has missed this need not be ashamed: with this work, artist Irene Verbeek wants to investigate exactly how the everyday things around us unconsciously shape us, even though we have no idea what exactly we are driving over.

Verbeek was commissioned to cover the windows in the early 1980s by Jan Hoekstra, an art collector. He would like to close the windows of his apartment on Herestraat on the street side, but finds it unsympathetic to simply close them: he wanted passers-by to see something. Verbeek then creates the works by enlarging the details of the viaduct in screen printing.

Irene Verbeek makes paintings, graphic art, and monumental art. In 1983 she made the dome and ceiling paintings Apollo and The Muses in the Stadsschouwburg.

Location.

Hereweg 22

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