The Tubular plastic (1964) by Kees Timmer has found a new place on the Noordereiland. Since 1964 this work has stood in the courtyard of the former Electro Technical School of Amsterdam. It has now been moved to Ons Park on the Noordereiland in Rotterdam. The statue was saved from demolition and is now called Giraffes.
Kees Timmer (Zaandam, 1903 – Rotterdam, 1978) attended the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam, where he continued to live and work after completing his studies. He found recognition in the Rotterdam of the reconstruction. In 1966 he won the Hendrik Chabot Prize for his oeuvre. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen has organized various solo exhibitions with his work and still has a small, special collection. This consists of paintings, prints and drawings, in which animals are a recurring theme. In Rotterdam, a number of works by his hand can be found in public space, such as the characteristic steel plastic Phoenix (1959) at the Post CS building, formerly the City Post Office. On May 19, the Tubular plastic, renamed giraffes, added to his oeuvre. An orphaned statue, saved from demolition by a concerned former school director and offered to take on a new meaning in a new place. Residents, who have developed the park together with the municipality, welcomed the statue in Ons Park.