This sculpture with the title For you my love © by the Rotterdam artist Hulya Yilmaz has stood at the entrance of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen since 2003. Due to lengthy renovation work at the museum, the artwork had to be stored in the museum depot. BKOR, together with the artist, conducted research into a new place in public space and found this temporary location on the Westerkade. A small celebration of this new location took place on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. For you my love © is exemplary of the spatial work of artist Hulya Yilmaz, in which she combines heaviness and lightness. In her installations she combines soft and delicate materials (textiles) with powerful shapes. This image with its dark color also has that robustness. In the bronze skin you can see the weave of her working materials, so that an organic and more vulnerable skin also appears to be present here. The work is about symmetry, shape and mass, with sources of inspiration from biology. The work was purchased by the Willem van Rede Fund Foundation. The assets of grain trader and passionate collector Willem van Rede (1880-1953) have been placed in this fund at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen by the Cultural Heritage Agency (RCE). After the renovation work, the artwork will be returned to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.
