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Groot kwadratenreliëf

This is an original artwork, please don’t touch.

In the corner of this room, there is a balcony. On this balcony, you can find a tactile relief of this artwork on the wall.You can touch the relief to experience the artwork in a different way.

Information on the artwork

'Groot kwadratenreliëf' by the Dutch artist Jan Schoonhoven is made of papier-mâché. It consists of hundreds of small squares which are all slightly different because they have been made by hand. The relief has been attached to a piece of chipboard and painted white. The light which falls onto this emphasizes the irregularities in the composition, which has a very rigid structure.

In 1960, the artists Schoonhoven, Arman...

1964
Latex paint on papier-mâché on chipboard
107.5 x 131.5cm
430
Image and text © Van Abbemuseum, 2024

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