Strandcabine voor de Belgische kust, 1987-2020
- Medium: Anodized aluminium
- Size: 40 × 30 × 30 cm
This project came about as a result of a competition for beach cabins.A specific component of the Beach Cabins, which you can only reach by a ladder at the bottom, is that they are placed within the tide line, so that sometimes you can only reach them while swimming. The cabins are subjected to a variable parameter of nature: not to the scorching rhythm of the sun, but the slow rocking of the sea and the moon. There are several collages and models of the Beach Cabins. At first they had black steel legs, but later they would all be executed in brass. In the latest versions, cavities were cut out themselves.
Property of the Foundation Verbeke collection.
THE ARTIST: Koen Deprez
Koen Deprez is the enfant terrible in the architecture and interior design world. He is known today mainly for his eccentric approach to private and public interiors, which grew seamlessly from a passion for the landscape and urban public space that dates back to his student days, when he was already an intern at Rem Koolhaas (OMA) in Rotterdam and Alessandro Mendini (Studio Alchimia) in Milan. His plans and interventions result in beautiful drawings, paintings and models that he regularly exhibits or gives an application to. Deprez is a hermit who considers every detail in the landscape, but at the same time builds towers to survey the world. From this tension emerge creations in which shifts of scale, misplaced underpinnings, stories, anecdotes and gaps take on the spatial form of a baroque labyrinth of which only the artist knows the complete floor plan.
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