Through their form, their intervention in space, details such as the finish of the surface, monumentality, unexpected combinations of materials and non-material elements such as motion, warmth or film images, the sculptures appeal to the transmission of information in many, varied forms.
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De Rijke and De Rooij did not study the work of filmmakers like Godard and Antonioni until later on, but the way the conventions of cinema are ‘denaturalized’ by alienating interventions in these films is highly reminiscent of the strategies of nouvelle vague and related tendencies of the 1960s and 70s.
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Such discrepancies are to be seen not only in the post-war residential neighbourhoods which have been criticised for years now, but for instance also in city centres that are subject to gentrification, in which specific groups in the population are being pushed aside and the public character of these areas are radically altered by means of architectural interventions and political, economic development/speculation, as well as in the boastful slogans which are intended to make an office centre like the Zuidas attractive.
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Such discrepancies are to be seen not only in the post-war residential neighbourhoods which have been criticised for years now, but for instance also in city centres that are subject to gentrification, in which specific groups in the population are being pushed aside and the public character of these areas are radically altered by means of architectural interventions and political, economic development/speculation, as well as in the boastful slogans which are intended to make an office centre like the Zuidas attractive.
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From that first contact – and this may be the experience of any viewer – those scenes of memory that the artist has created stand out in which they are frequently interrupted by a series of interventions that disturb some kind of moral order: the man who in one scene represents the head of the family appears in another as the two-headed man in position for anal penetration; a nuclear family commits incest by way of the heterodox practice of various sexual experiments; a series of sketches of domestic pets represents them in a position that suggests rigor mortis; zoophilia is equally connoted or denoted; a scene of soldiers at war looks more like a rape.
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