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RECLAMATION
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materials high resolution photographs printed onto self-adhesive vinyl
and the vinyl photographs then applied to a plywood frame
dimensions 6.53 x 6.66 x .7 meters
21.4 x 21.7 x 2.3 feet
exhibition date August 31 - November 15, 2008
location Museum De Paviljoens, Almere NL
Outdoors & open to the public
Reclamation was a reproduction
of the last remaining façade from the ghost town of Metropolis,
USA. Metropolis was founded in 1910 as a real estate venture by
The Pacific Reclamation Company, though due to insufficient water
rights, by 1925 the town was largely abandoned.
Made possible by
the Jan van Eyck Academie
and Museum De Paviljoens
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images of the outdoor installation:
1 2
3 construction
above images top: back view, and
bottom: a detail of the high resolution photographs that covered
the surface of the work
materials high resolution photographs printed onto self-adhesive vinyl, and applied to a plywood frame
dimensions 6.53 x 6.66 x .7 meters or 21.4 x 21.7 x 2.3 feet
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