{"id":14242,"date":"2019-01-05T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T16:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauritsvandelaar.nl\/this-must-be-the-place-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T16:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:05:36","slug":"this-must-be-the-place-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauritsvandelaar.nl\/en\/this-must-be-the-place-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Must Be The Place"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Must Be The Place<\/em><\/h1>\n

Robbie Cornelissen, Rik Smits, Dirk Zoete<\/h2>\n

drawings, three dimensional work<\/h3>\n

6 January through 3 February 2019<\/h5>\n

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<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]This Must be the Place<\/em> focuses on architectural fantasies, as a place where the artist can develop and shape his ideas and fascinations. In art history there are many famous examples of imaginary buildings, such as Bruegel\u2019s Tower of Babel<\/em>, Piranesi\u2019s Carceri<\/em>, the deserted city squares of De Chirico and Constant\u2019s idealistic urban fantasy New Babylon<\/em>. These often refer to mythical lost cities, offer social criticism or attempt to imagine an ideal society.
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\nRik Smits<\/strong> (1982) draws enormous and meticulously detailed metropoles with skyscrapers, road systems and harbours. People are absent in these drawings, but he often integrates statues of mythical creatures and animals to represent a cycle of bloom, decline and regeneration.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]Robbie Cornelissen<\/strong> (1954), who recently received the Fentener van Vlissingen Culture Award, also makes detailed large-format drawings of architectural spaces and buildings. The library is a recurring theme in his work, sometimes integrated in a large public space. These are clearly not realistic architectural structures but more like mental, inner spaces for the spectator to wander through.
\nDirk Zoete<\/strong> (1969) makes drawings of landscapes in which houses, windmills, barns and fields form a coherent system for humans and animals. The drawings show a longing for a world where people are able to be self-sufficient and live in harmony with nature.<\/p>\n

Apart from the drawings, the exhibition includes scale model by Rik Smits of a city cut out in styropor foam, measuring 2,2 x 3,6 meter.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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