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Gjalt Blaauw

About this artwork.

The sculpture is made of Corten steel and dolomites from the Anröchte quarry in the German Ruhrgebiet. From the two rough pieces stacked on top of each other and facing towards the other end, the sculpture gradually becomes more polished in shape. In the broken pieces the boreholes are still visible and also the stone that follows is roughly finished, although here you can see some regularity in the clefts that have been made. The other two parts of the sculpture have a more regular and smoother structure and this is even more true for the steel part. 
 
 The sculpture was made in connection with a merger of educational institutions within the health care sector. The client was the UMCG. During the celebration of the merger, the two rough blocks of stone were unveiled in which the chairman of the UMCG then made the first "indentation". Gjalt Blaauw was then commissioned, using these stones as a starting point, to make a sculpture related to the merger. Blaauw depicted this fusion by building a sculpture from the rough blocks, which he left undisturbed, with the various parts leaning against each other, gradually becoming more “streamlined”. 
 
 Blaauw made a range of sculptures from the combination of iron and stone. Mass, space, material and balance are the starting points in his work. Building and stacking is a method often used by the artist. Virtually all of these sculptures consist of parts that are stacked and play a game with balance – out of balance and yet in balance.

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Location.

Melkweg (Kasteel, Noorderpoortcollege)

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