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Dürerhaus

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Dürerhaus

2024
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, #145, 157 x 113 x 11cm
Collection Albrecht-Dürer-Haus Museum, Nuremberg, Germany.



Built around 1420, the Dürerhaus was the home of German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer from 1509 to his death in 1528. Nuremberg was an early centre of humanism, science, printing, and mechanical invention. In 1515, Dürer created woodcuts of the first maps of the stars of both hemispheres, and the first perspective drawing of the terrestrial globe.
In the late stages of World War 2, from October 1944, Nuremberg was 90% destroyed by Allied bombing and heavy ground combat. The house took significant damage and was brought to the brink of collapse. The bas-relief shows it with various degrees of damage, consolidation attempts and repairs.
The Dürerhaus bas relief was finished on May 14th 2024. That day it was 84 years ago the city of Rotterdam was bombed by the Luftwaffe, laying waste to its entire historic centre. As we are witnessing the rise of nationalism, xenophobia and cynical gas-lighting let us hope this will not lead us back to an era of destruction.

The bas relief will become part of the collection of the City of Nuremberg. It will be installed in the Albrecht-Dürer-Haus Museum as part of the new permanent exhibition that will be presented on February 18th 2025.







Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

Sol Invictus

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Sol Invictus

2024
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 61 x 61 x 9cm



‘Unconquered Sun’ was a title used for some of the emperors of Rome. Sol Invictus depicts a section of the surface of the sun showing a large sunspot. This surface is also a landscape but one so severe we could never visit it as it is around 5,600 degrees Celsius. Earth happens to sit at exactly the right distance to it for life to be possible but the balance is precarious.











Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

T-bone (Still Life 3)

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

T-bone (Still Life 3)

2024
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 176 x 155 x 18cm

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Studio Visit – 25 March 2024
just had a visit from butcher Chiel Neef. He came by to check what I’d done with his T-bone steak. A while ago I had asked at Sligro wholesale, a bit down the street from us, for the the Ultimate T-bone steak. I explained that it was for an art project. This made Chiel rather curious. He gave me the steak for free on the condition that he could come to see the end result. I’m glad he was very satisfied with it. All the details had the correct appearance; like the way the bone looks and the black flakiness of the dried edge. He was also glad that the meat had the correct ratio, with a relatively small tenderloin. But of course that was his own contribution, after all I had asked him for the ultimate cut!






Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

1953 4

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

1953 4 (Wantij)

2023
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 60 x 60 x 9cm







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Het dichten van de dijkdoorbraak van het Wantij 1953

Foto’s: Regionaal Archief Dordrecht
https://beeldbank.regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/



Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

1953 3

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

1953 3 (Wantij)

2023
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 60 x 60 x 9cm





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Het dichten van de dijkdoorbraak van het Wantij 1953

Foto’s: Regionaal Archief Dordrecht
https://beeldbank.regionaalarchiefdordrecht.nl/



Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

1953 2

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

1953 2 (Ouderkerk)

2023
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 60 x 60 x 9cm







Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

1953 1

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

1953 1 (Papendrecht)

2023
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 60 x 60 x 9cm








Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

Nebraska

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Nebraska

2023
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 117 x 180 x 16cm





Three examples of nineteenth century stereo cards


Stereoscopic photo-prints were very popular around the turn of the century. Before mass tourism they were a way for people to connect to famous landmarks and sites all around the world. You can still find them and use them as a portal to a world that is long gone. The Nebraska relief is based on a stereoscopic card from 1908 depicting the “Platte Canon, South Park and Alpine Pass”. The name of the Platte river is a French translation of the original name the local Otoe people had for it. Nebraska means “flat water”. A narrow train track looks overwhelmed by the menacing rock faces beside it. You can only see a short distance ahead. Nobody knows what is waiting around the corner.


Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

Landwasser

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Landwasser

2020
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #130, 182 diameter x 14cm.
Collection Roberto Sassmannshausen, Rotterdam, Netherlands.


Postcards showing the Landwasser Viaduct.



Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.

Jericho

index of sculptures 1988 to 2024

Jericho

2020
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #129, 184 x 153 x 15cm.








Jericho is the second bas-relief based on photo’s of a tree stump in the Yosemite valley in California. The first one, made in 2013, was titled Holocene. Such a cross section forms a record of time, while it also demonstrates our brutal relationship with nature. Jericho was made in 2020. This time the decaying chunk of wood is rendered in red, white and blue, a color scheme familiar from many national flags. The title references the tower of Jericho which today itself rather resembles a fossilized tree trunk. That tower is one of the oldest monumental structures, built around 10.000 years ago at the dawn of the agricultural revolution. It is located in the Palestinian West Bank, today an area in crisis.

View of the tower from the east showing both openings.
Image source: http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/barkai327/

Part of the Alluvial Plain exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in December 2024.