Collection Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle (B)
Jeroen Doorenweerd adorned the Museum’s garden with a sculpture that at first sight resembles an impressive table or a footbridge and, like a pier, offers an imaginary podium from which to view the Museum’s activities. Yet this garden sculpture is based on a rational analysis of the architecture of the Museum. Doorenweerd projected the level of the floor and the length of the large squares in the Museum Gallery, in a simplified form, into a freestanding wooden sculpture. This factual, verifiable work of art is permeated with a minimalist spirit; it cuts willy-nilly across the middle of the garden and serves, en passant, as a ‘place’ in space in the tradition of Carl Andre. (Luk Lambrecht)