The artwork Under Heaven 03 Leonard van Munster opened on May 19, 2009. Sand and palm trees under the A10. Under the A10, which splits the district with cheap houses and large dishes in the Bos en Lommer, is an oasis. With sand and palm trees.
Behind fences, between dozens of pillars that all those on cars racing to keep in the air. On the gravel, which is littered with empty plastic bottles, old cans. Who really listens, hears the trickling waterfall. A palm tree bends over the lake, flowers stabbing from the slightly elevated patch of grass.
” Really funny, ” finds a little boy running through from school under the overpass. Who will be cycling or -rijdt sees between the concrete pillars a mirage looming. ” These trees are fake, but those flowers are real, ” thinks a girl who tells you previously could crawl under the fence, and now no more.
The fences were restored by Van Munster. ” This is the best studio in the public domain that you can imagine, ” says the artist. It is a very large space, covered, and no one can through the gates there. ” Normally you have to work in the public space with bronze or so. Here I can even use cardboard as I want. ”
Munster works much in the public space. The oasis is a series, for which he created a few years ago, a nine-meter-high tree on the roof of the Museum, with a tree house in it.
This place was not easy. More than three years Van Munster has been working in “the horror chamber of Forest and Shade,” as this newspaper labeled the place ever to be allowed to work. Every day he came along it; Viaduct leads him to the city and to his home in Geuzenveld. Munster contacted Public Works, because of the highway, and in the district. ” But these are pools with syrup. ”
When he saw someone urinate, he spoke to him, because he thought it was a graffiti kid who could tell how he could get behind the fences him. The boy appeared to do air monitoring for the Public Health Service; The apartment blocks on the city side of Bos en Lommer are almost on the ring road. When Van Munster was almost there.
Money for Under Heaven 03 he received from housing corporation Rochdale and the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts. ” Stadgenoot has already pledged to give money for the next job. ”
Five years from Munster wants to experiment with the place. What will he do? ” Maybe there appear soon have a cottage next to the oasis, which occasionally comes to music. ” (Liedewij Loorbach, PAROOL)
Under Heaven 03
Artist: Leonard van Munster
Street Name: Wiltzanghlaan
District: Bos en Lommer
Date: 2009