Hugo Roelandt
(c)Estate Hugo Roelandt
In collaboration with Marc Holthof, Greet Verlinden, Jan Heremans, Paul Vandenbussche, Johan De Bruyn & Gerd Dillen
• 3–27 April 1986, Aigua I Aigua, Espai 10, Fundació Joan Miró, Parc de Montjuïc, Barcelona
• 1986, The Shape of Water, Zwembad en Beeldende Kunst, Belfort, Aalst
• 1–3 juni 1990, Histoire d’eau, Festival ‘t Lichte, Universiteit Tilburg
A version of the Middelheim-project, reduced to 9 windscreen wipers, is placed in a pond, next to a statue by Joan Miro, on a terrace with a panoramic view of the city at the Fundacio Joan Miro in the Montjuic park, Barcelona. The paving stones of the terrace are covered with ‘Aigua Bellugada’: plastic deep freeze bags bought at the department store El Corte Inglés and filled with water reflecting the sunlight. Other versions of this project are the water pyramids constructed in the Gothic cellar of the Belfort of Aalst, and during the festival ‘t Lichte at the University of Tilburg, Holland.
(Abstracts from Hugo Roelandt: Let's Expand The Sky, red. Mark Holthof, Occasional Papers, London, 2016)
