'Behind The Horizon'

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The group of statues were designed by Andreas Hetfeld and Suus Baltussen for cultural festival 'De Kaai 2012', and were originally intended as a temporary display.  However, after the many positive comments from visitors, the municipality of Nijmegen ensured that the image group would get a semi-permanent place and were placed back on the shore of the river Waal.  Visitors will be able to enjoy the statues for the next five years.  The wire-mesh figures sit atop light blue, wood poles that have been sunk five feet deep into the sand and set in concrete foundations.

 

hetfeld

 

'Far above the heads of the passer-byes towers a poetic group. The fragile, human figures from wire mesh sit on wooden poles and focus their searching gaze at the distant horizon. They seem to investigating human imagining that together in the group and trying to still see each to new heights , and understand the world . What are people looking at….is there something they’re looking for….is there something they see that we cannot?'

 

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