A film by Alfonso Nogueroles about Dunepark', an ambitious site-specific project by French artist Cyprien Gaillard, organized by Stroom Den Haag in 2009. Dunepark is the excavation of a World War II bunker currently buried in a hill overlooking the beach of Scheveningen and the neighbourhood of Duindorp. For Gaillard, the physical process of excavating is a form of negative sculpting. He sees this submerged bunker as a buried readymade. With the help of large earth-moving equipment and volunteers of the Stichting Atlantikwall Museum Scheveningen, Gaillard dug out this massive form to reveal it in all its brutalist glory, before recovering it once more.
Made possible by: Stroom Den Haag, Foundation Atlantikwall Museum Scheveningen, City of The Hague (Culture and Finances), Vestia Den Haag Scheveningen, CulturesFrance Paris and Fonds 1818 The Hague.
Interesting work, I like the way a lot of Cyprien Gaillard's work seems to have a lot to do with historical reclaimation. What made you decide to have the video completly silent?
selfsurprise 1 week ago