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Public Art

I’m sure that there is a whole volume waiting to be written about the public art that is to be found in The Netherlands. Some is striking, but much of it makes me go "I beg your pardon?". Yesterday, for example, I was cycling through a neighbourhood in the nearby small town of Aalten and I came across this…
 
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There was not a word of explanation as to who the artist was, or what his/her intentions might have been. Merely an official notice stating firmly that it was forbidden to climb upon the art. Says it all, really.

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3 responses to “Public Art”

  1. Gelert Avatar
    Gelert

    Mind you Geoff, so much ‘public furniture’ (don’t you love that euphemism?) is hideous and dull, that I don’t actually mind this so much. I could sit here and…… well, not sure exactly what, but I could. More happily than upon the average traffic island anyway.

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  2. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Gelert, yes, this particular example did at least make me smile. And talking of traffic islands, there’s a particular roundabout just outside of Gouda where some artist (again, I have no idea who) made me smile.

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  3. Geoff Avatar
    Geoff

    Here are the images from the traffic island

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