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RECLAMATION
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newspaper
brochure
advertisement
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.
The last and most permanent
building in Metropolis, the Lincoln School, has almost completely
crumbled to the ground. Pockmarked with bullet holes and corroding in
the harsh desert weather, only the entrance remains standing in
the shape of an arch.
This archway was reconstructed at 1:1 scale as a public
outdoor architectural installation in Almere, the Netherlands.
A three-dimensional replica of the decaying Lincoln School was
clad with high-resolution photographs of the original. The work
was a combination of architecture, photography and sculpture,
and was fabricated from standard outdoor advertising and construction
materials. Reclamation was located on SITE 2F7, the last remaining
undeveloped plot of land in Almere's city center, and was open
for view at all times.
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 front and side views
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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