David Vandekop Untitled (1984)

This two-part ceramic artwork was given a place on the Westblaak in 1984 to function as a playful element in the walking area between the traffic flows and the tall buildings. This area hardly met expectations and at the end of the nineties the plan arose to build a skate park there. There was no place in that plan for the artwork by visual artist David Vandekop and that is why the work was moved to its current location in 1999, where it comes into its own. Vandekop's work is internationally appreciated and can be found in museums and public spaces in various cities. This ceramic sculpture is the only sculpture by his hand in the cityscape of Rotterdam. Vandekop initially worked mainly with solid iron, with which he made heavy, constructivist sculptures. But gradually his spatial constructions became more organic and playful, often built up from different parts that together form a dynamic whole, just as this sculpture also consists of more shapes. In this work, the ceramic material produces a light, playful and colorful sculpture.