Video: "Camille" - an installation that brings people together
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Recently, a bright wooden installation appeared on the Boaldieu bridge in the French city of Rouen. Its author, Belgian conceptual author Arne Quinze, is confident that this arch will witness many meetings, conversations, hugs and kisses. Indeed, it could not be otherwise: the bridge itself is a symbol of connection, and the new installation is designed to strengthen and emphasize its connecting role.
“When I visited Rouen and saw the Boaldieu bridge for the first time, I immediately realized that the bridge should create social interaction. All my works are dedicated to uniting people, including this installation on the bridge over the Seine. The residents of the left bank will meet the residents of the right bank under tangled wooden planks,”says Arne Quinze.
To create the installation, the author required many wooden planks, as well as metal, concrete and fluorescent paint. The sculpture, which is 120 meters long and weighs 110 tons, is supported by eighteen concrete supports. The striking installation was named "Camille" - and there are two reasons for this. Firstly, it was done in honor of the famous French painter Camille Pissarro, who painted the Boaldieu bridge several times. Another person whose name is consonant with the title of the installation is Claude Monet's first wife Camilla Donsieu.
Camille is not Arne Quinze's first installation of colored wooden planks. On the contrary, such works can be safely called the author's trademark: such designs have already appeared in the USA, Belgium, and Germany. The sculpture in Rouen, according to Arne, "was created to evoke emotions and spark conversations."
Arne Quinze was born in 1971 in Belgium. The author currently lives and works in Miami (USA) and Sint-Martens Latem (Belgium). According to Arne, his work is guided by the belief in the possibility of creating an ideal society where all people will interact and communicate with each other.
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