Untitled (Cockerel - Haan)

About this artwork.

In the external wall of a house one can see a mosaic of a cockerel. The animal gains dynamism and rhythm through the pattern of colours and shapes in which many diagonals are incorporated.
 
The Groningen artist Siep van den Berg originally created the artwork in 1956 for the new building of the Provincial Animal Health Service on Zaagmuldersweg 1, where it adorned the gable end. This building was demolished in 2012. Artwork Group Oosterpark Nooit Saai (ONS) dedicated itself to the preservation of the artwork in the neighbourhood. They found housing corporation Nijestee willing to include Cockerel in the residential complex Mijn Plek. In December 2012 the piece of art was integrated into the new building.

In Cockerel, all of the colours and geometric patterns of the public murals that artist Siep van den Berg made can be perceived. This is so characteristic of that artist, especially his work from the seventies. In this later work he varies again and again with horizontal and vertical, with lines and blocks, using only the colours red, yellow, blue, black and white.
 
Van den Berg started painting freely around 1935 and as an artist he subsequently developed from pure naturalism, via Impressionism and Cubism to Constructivism, of which the purely drama free manner of expression is so characteristic. The Mijn Plek residential complex

Facts & Figures.

• Design
  Siep van den Berg

• District
  Oosterparkwijk

• Year of creation
  1956

• Art type
  Art in / on a building, Mosaic

• Dimensions
  h 2,00 x b 1,30 m