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High contrast object for the Muggeplein in Deventer, the Netherlands. The resident committee together with Kunstenlab wanted an artwork for this newly renovated square in the historic center of Deventer. 

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This square is lined with architecture from several periods, the 17th century, the 1980's and recent townhouses. This location has not always been a square, but had many appearances and functions, through time. In the middle ages a pesthouse and hospital was housed on this spot, later when those buildings were demolished an outlay of ragged little alleys were located here. More recently a police station with cells were built on the square and demolished only a few decades later.

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With this work I want to recapture all the lost architectural data of this location and compress this into the archetype shape and building block, the cube. Giving a shape to the memory of all the changes this space went through in the past and possibly will go through in the future.

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The work is made of cast concrete and painted in high contrast but has a un-earthy matterless apperance, it brightness seems as it doesnot obey the rules of matter.