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DE SOKKEL #2: Art intervention in an Antwerp park

2 October 2011 t/m 29 April 2012

As of this year, the Klein Antwerpen community association and MIDDELHEIMPRODUCTIE will join forces to add a cultural dimension to an empty plinth in the park.

About De Sokkel

The two partners have taken the initiative to invite significant, international artists twice a year who will make the plinth relevant again. With Pointing and Shouting the artist Ria Pacquée wants to create the option of a public place for debate for all the users of this public space.

 

A public place for debate

A call to all skaters, Jews, gays, communists, members of academia, politicians, beggars, Catholics, hip-hop fans, Hindus, Muslims, anarchists, gurus, capitalists, Buddhists, transsexuals, junkies, bankers, foreigners, students, gypsies, artists, the self-employed, illegal aliens, smokers, civil servants, philosophers, atheists, monarchists, people on the sidelines of society, joggers, conservatives, tourists, nihilists, journalists, populists, utopians, jobseekers, soldiers, militants, evolutionaries, agitators, nerds, reformists, nudists, criminals, vegans, goths, disabled people, scientists, loitering youth, shopaholics, workers, globalists, lobbyists, shamans, pimps, retirees, illegal workers, prostitutes, misanthropists, revolutionaries…

 

Opening

The sculpture will be inaugurated during the Klein Antwerpen neighbourhood festival on 2 October 2011 at 11 a.m. with a performance by Ria Pacquée.

Location: Antwerp’s Central Park: on the side of Quinten Matsyslei, near the play area and skate park.

Daily from sunrise to sunset.

Co-production: Klein Antwerpen and MIDDELHEIMPRODUCTIE.

Henk Visch (The Netherlands, 1950) kicked off the series in May 2011 with his sculpture, Noch einmal, a key work in his career.

Word vriend van het museum