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In a commission for the city of Apeldoorn Arjanne van der Spek made "sculpture of a thought" (not shown here) It is an open structure made of steel tubes that are galvanized and partly painted. This open structure is placed on a shed made of recycled plastic. The sculptures setting is a deserted field in a wood near Apeldoorn. The steel structure can also be placed in the shed, as a thought exists in the skull, but can also go out of it. The idea of a hidden sculpture that is movable, and can be presented in different ways is related to (the desire of) a nomadic awareness. In the neighbourhood of the sculpture are 'Sprenges' hidden rivers that come to the surface here and there. They, like the sculpture, can have different appearances.
In the last two years a new phenomenon appears in the work of van der Spek: she made a series of 'tapestries' that have an 'associative' effect on the viewer. They are collages on felt with photography and drawings on silk, they take a place in between her drawings and sculptures.
The tapestries were presented in a Yurt, a nomadic tent from Mongolia also made of felt, near the 'thought sculpture' They have titles like 'Spooky', and 'symetrie-rug', 'ode to Slauerhoff' (a Dutch writer), and 'elder-tapestry'.
In sculpture, a movement, a thought, a stream, freezes, and becomes a 'thing' It has done so since the Greeks, and it still does. In van der Spek's work it is the same old - never shown before - way.
curator robroy gallery
