ARTZUID 2011 took place between 27 May to 28 August 2011. In co-operation with Amsterdam institutions, including the Stedelijk Museum and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, leading writer and artist Jan Cremer will present his ‘SCULPTURALE - THE WORLD AROUND. Once again, the stately avenues of Berlage’s Plan-Zuid and the parks designed in the 1990s by landscape architect Michael van Gessel will be the unique setting for fifty sculptures by internationally renowned artists. The sculptures will be displayed against a backdrop of the exceptional architecture of the Amsterdam School. The route is being extended to include the Zuidas.
Jean Tinguely was exhibited here. He created the huge kinetic sculpture entitled “Heureka” out of iron bars, wheels, and metal pans and pipes for the National Exhibition in Lausanne in 1964. The name “Heureka” (Eureka) - which is Ancient Greek for “I’ve found it” - is meant ironically, for the sculpture is a machine without purpose. Tinguely’s “meta-mechanics” are understood the world over as allegories of consumerism in advanced industrial society which, having exhausted itself in hectic activity, still ends in absurdity. “Heureka” was Tinguely’s first public work and is based along the Zürichsee in Zürich CH.
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