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Pleurants

Alabaster Mourners for the Tomb Monument of Jean de Berry (1340-1416)

ISBN: 9789464366228 (PB - EN)

"Give me a few more million years and my strandbeests will live completely independently." THEO JANSEN. The artist Theo Jansen (born 1948) from The Hague has become world-famous for his imposing and ingenious beach animals or strandbeests. He was inspired by the theory of evolution to gradually teach them to move in the wind so that they could travel down the beach unaided. By imitating earthly creation in his own highly distinctive way, Jansen hopes to acquire wisdom from nature, encountering in the course of his quest the same problems as the real Creator. This book describes Jansen's experiences as God and builds on his previous books, repeating, scrapping and supplementing. Theo Jansen began studying physics in Delft, then started work as an artist. Between 1986 and 2008 he was the author of a regular column in de Volkskrant. He also wrote the book The Great Pretender, about the process of developing his strandbeests. Jansen was named Artist of the Year 2018 in November 2017 and received The Hague's Culture Award in 2018. Theo Jansen's strandbeests can be admired in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag from 26 February 2022.



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