Zilver Fruit, Silver Cakespoons, The Garden
2012
Peter Rogiers
According to Peter Rogiers, the palm tree is so stereotypical that it belongs to everyone and no one. For the artist, the sculpture “has to become more than a typical palm tree; there has to be something strange about it, something that makes it almost an alien entity.” The use of aluminum and sharp forms gives the sculpture a completely different connotation.
Details
- Plan number: S26
- Zone: Urban nature
- Title: Zilver Fruit, Silver Cakespoons, The Garden
- Creator: Peter Rogiers
- Date: 2012
- Material: aluminium, stainless steel
- Acquisition: purchase
- Object number: MID.B.637
In the words of the artist: “Once a palm tree is freed from the burden of having to be a palm tree, or from the burden of having to be so-called real art, its life as a spectacular object can begin. Once it crosses that boundary, it can move freely, take off.”
Palm trees make one dream of distant journeys to paradisiacal places, but at the same time are dangerously sharp. Paradise and danger meet. Nature combines both sides: city people project both hope and fear onto the wilderness.
Peter Rogiers occupies a unique place within Belgian contemporary sculpture. He seeks both the future and the past of sculpture. The artist combines a rather classical craft with knowledge of contemporary visual culture and idiosyncratic handling of tradition.
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Two bright blue figures balance on a pedestal. The title “Two Reclining Figures on a Calder Base (sculpture for Middelheim),” betrays Peter Rogiers’s love of art history. Reclining figures in Western artistic tradition usually refer to reclining female nudes, but in Rogiers’s work they become strange, stretched figures that seem to be dancing or fighting with each other. For the striking colors and shapes, the artist finds inspiration in comics. The title also refers to artist Alexander Calder’s mobiles, which inspired the plinth.
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