Hans Op de Beeck, Location I, 1998 The Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck aims to present a stilled moment of time and spaces that appear to be real or represent a specific place but are purely of his imagination. There is a cinematic quality to the sculptures and installations he makes, as in Location I which depicts a crossroads in a deserted landscape. The viewer sees the work at chest height (for a man) as if looking out of a slotted window in some sort of bunker. They see an empty traffic intersection with redundant red and green lights in a dark cool blue light. No one is there to use those traffic signals, as if the site was stuck in time. Frozen water canals can be seen which reflect the lights in this sort of nowhere space with no narrative and no clue to meaning.
Hans Op de Beeck Location I, 1998 Installation view: the Museum of Installation, London, 2002, 8 m? (86 ft) model, 200 × 260 × 310 cm (6 ft 5 in. × 8 ft 5 in. × 10 ft), waist height, wood, polystyrene, sand, modelling paste, PVC, plastics, plexiglas, lets, electronics, paint, light box. Photograph: David Grandorge.
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