Wood Cloud
Cityscape is the latest installation by Belgian designer Arne Quinze. At 60m long and 18m high, the art installation – constructed entirely from reclaimed timber – will dominate a public square in Brussels’ Quartier Louise.
Supported by 33 columns, each 12m high, the wooden structure is on the highest point in the northern part of the city. It’s a disparate and desolate area, says Quinze, occupied by homeless people and a large shopping mall. “When they showed me the area, I felt everything was moving around. It felt like a really big wave, so I started sketching. You take a picture and you freeze a moment. It’s like the interaction between both. If you see the energy it flies from the object. You can really feel it,” says Quinze.
The project, commissioned two months ago by the mayor of Brussels to bring public art to a difficult area of the city, is the latest in a line of Quinze’s spectacular timber constructions. The most recent was a huge sculpture built for the Nevada desert, torched as part of the Burning Man Festival last year, but this project is staying in the city for a year and the timber will be recycled.
Alongside Cityscape the designer has much bigger ambitions for his native city. “My next job is to redesign Brussels,” says Quinze. He now has an office with architects and designers looking at ways to remove cars from the city and use cleaner energy. “I feel that I’m on my own with this but we are going to do it and show them what we can do.” Beatrice Galilee via ICON
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