index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
Lambchop (Still Life 2)
2019
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #127, 189 x 112 x 14cm.
Collection Museum LAM, Lisse, Netherlands.
Team Mandos installing the Markers exhibition.
Part of the Markers exhibition at Ron Mandos gallery, Amsterdam in 2020.
index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
KIT
2018
Bas-relief in salvaged wood, 460 x 460 x 32cm.
Made on commission for Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Photo’s: Bob Goedewaagen.
This work is on permanent 24 hour a day display in the main entrance of the Erasmus MC hospital in Rotterdam.
KIT depicts a monumental cube consisting of colored wooden blocks. It is the largest salvaged wood bas-relief to date. As an object it is like an emblem or a coat of arms. But the image appears like a giant three dimensional puzzle. Within an improvised stack the parts are seemingly still looking for their final place. The work is meant to symbolize ‘accepting a challenge’ and to encourage anybody navigating the hallways of this large institute, as an emphasis on the power of the individual.
Some Erasmus M.C. video clips from the project (Dutch):
Some examples of work done on commission:
index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
Still Life
2010
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #71, 180 x 102 x 12cm.
Collection of Gennaro Picone & Susan Nestel, New York, NY, USA.
Some of the source material for Still Life.
Part of the Perishables solo presentation at the Ambach & Rice booth, The Armory Show fair, New York, NY, USA in 2011.
index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
Axonometric Array
2008
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #53, size variable ca. 7m50 x 3m50 x 25cm.
Built on assignment for WORM alternative music and film venue in Rotterdam
(on permanent display).
This computer collage is the original design for Axonometric Array. It incorporated a cassette tape recorder but that was later omitted. Cassette tapes were chosen as a subject because of their d.i.y. aspect which perfectly fits the WORM venue: https://worm.org
An important source for the look of the tapes was http://www.tapedeck.org/
Part of an ongoing series of HiFi themed objects. The first set of 4 was a solo show at Delta gallery Rotterdam in 2006.
index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
Stadsbus (Town Bus)
2007
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #39, 183 x 112 x 14cm.
Museum Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Work linked to the city of Rotterdam:
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Fly Over
2002
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #16, 350 x 210 x 20cm.
Built for Hogeschool Rotterdam (Rotterdam University), Netherlands.
Fly Over was the first bas-relief that was made on commission. It was constructed especially for the auditorium of the new Economic Faculty (H.E.S.) in Rotterdam, part of Rotterdam University. The auditorium is a large space with dark grey walls and bright red linoleum floors. The colour of the floors is incorporated in the work as a red haze. The relief itself was based on photo’s of Kleinpolderplein, a large and complex stacked interchange built in Rotterdam from 1958 onwards.
View of Mobility at gallery Delta. Hans Sonnenberg is seen seated at his desk.
Fly Over was temporarily installed at the gallery for the occasion of this show..
These works were part of the Mobility exhibition at gallery Delta in 2003:
index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
Parkflat
2002
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #15, 135 x 165 x 14.
Collection of Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Photo: Theo van Pinxteren, Museum Rotterdam.
The Parkflat under construction, 12 August 1957.
Photo by Herbert Behrens © Nationaal Archief.
Parkflat, Rotterdam
The Parkflat apartment block is situated on the corner of Westzeedijk and Kievitslaan in Rotterdam, overlooking the park. Designed by E.F. Groosman, it was built between 1948 and 1958 as the first large residential building of Rotterdam’s postwar reconstruction period. The Parkflat contains 50 relatively luxurious apartments, even though the tower block was constructed in a modified version of the MUWI concrete panel system.
This building system was widely used for mass housing construction all around the Netherlands until it fell out of favour in the early 1970s.
(source: rotterdamwoont.nl/…/Parkflat)
(source: bestaandewoningbouw.nl/muwi)
Work linked to the city of Rotterdam:
index of sculptures 1988 to 2024
Chevrolet Chevelle 1965
2000
Bas-relief in salvaged wood #1, 245 x 75 x 16cm.
Collection of Museum Voorlinden. Wassenaar, Netherlands.
Photo: Bob Goedewaagen.
The first series of bas reliefs was made in 2000 and 2001. All of them were cars:
