Per Abrams Detachment Feminine (1980)

Per Abramsen made high-quality, autonomous images for the gallery circuit. His autonomous work is often more expressive in nature. Like this image Feminine detachment, which Abramsen made as an autonomous work and was subsequently purchased for the Artotheek collection through the Visual Arts Regulation (BKR). It was later taken over by Hofwijk Crematorium, who placed it in the garden to the north-west of their auditorium building. There, the artwork has been given a beautiful public function in memory of stillborn babies from Rotterdam hospitals. The bronze plastic is 2.50 meters high and has an abstract shape. It is a woman's form, lying on a kind of folded bronze leaf, like an icarus-like figure. The fall of the figure fits the idea of ​​death, but it is unclear whether the artist intended it that way. At the crematorium the plastic looks nice in a quiet environment, which gives the work a certain loneliness and romance.