Week 6 at the OXT Sonsbeek 2016 project.
Kevin makes paper with Leo.
Cyan d’Anjou’s work is temporarily placed in the park.
Alex Fischer has joined the woodshop and starts carving into a large tree. He cuts out the forms of a gecko and a chainsaw from the bark of a dead tree in the deer park.
Indian artists Shilpa Gupta, another participant of Sonsbeek 2016, comes to visit and witnesses the opening of her work in the Park this week.
Many children play with the Zellige blocks created by Leonid Tsetkov.
Dario D’Aronco makes a woodcut of two hands. One of a man and one of an orangutan. With this woodcut he will be making prints.
Peel, a work by Gabriel Lester, is finally installed. The curled up plateau shelves seem to be peeled off.
Joost Zeegers builds cabinets. Its ‘skin’ is built from of wooden sliding boards and parts. Skin consists of small planks that are put together and can move and slide, which enable you to open and close the entire ‘skin’.
Daya Bakker finishes his kitchen.
Week 5 at the OXT Sonsbeek 2016 project.
This week, we hosted a sponsor dinner for 35 persons of Industrial Park Kleefsewaard.
Graphic designers George and Daniel of Catalog Tree do their first tests for a table. They designed a patterned graphic drawing that will be cut out of oak to create an oak table of 5 by 1 meters. The table legs are made of the cut out wood.
Cyan D’Anjou starts her own project. The matches (one burned) symbolize the story about the fallen angel Lucifer and the eternal story about good and evil.
Jasper Nouws gets help from I Wayang Raka.
Maze de Boer has been working on a new game board.
Kroko Schilte arrives and continues making enhancements to his drawing.
Leonid produces a few hundred blocks of Arabic Zellige tiles in wood. They are placed on a platform right outside the workshop and people are encouraged to make patterns and play with it.
Opening SONSBEEK ’16: transAction. 3rd of June 2016.
His Royal Highness Willem-Alexander opened Sonsbeek TransAction and visited my installation together with the curators.
Week 4 at the OXT Sonsbeek 2016 project.
Melle Smeets works on sculpture of an African political leader (part of a sculpture group), who stretches out his arm to point at someone else to blame. This week, Melle makes a beginning by cutting the tree into pieces.
Marieke Schoonderbeek installes her work.
Jeroen Worst of Studio Simple builds his wood lathe, which he finishes in the same week.
Arrival of artist Leonid Tsetkov.
Indonesion woodcarver I Wayang Raka arrives as well. He studies the design thought and drawn up by Kroko Schilte, and starts the carving process.
