Coming World
By Koen Vanmechelen
On the platform a giant concrete egg is a metaphor for a world that is constantly evolving and expanding. The sculpture 'Coming World' shows an egg that is on the point of hatching, as a precursor to the birth of a new mankind. Around this work you can find the small sculptures, made by the children in all the different workshops.
The statues fan out around the platform as a massive human shield in the zone of the no man’s land. They form a symbolical boundary on the site where hundred years ago inhumane suffering took place and this for four years long.
In my album 1914-1918 Remembered.
Coming World
By Koen Vanmechelen
On the platform a giant concrete egg is a metaphor for a world that is constantly evolving and expanding. The sculpture 'Coming World' shows an egg that is on the point of hatching, as a precursor to the birth of a new mankind. Around this work you can find the small sculptures, made by the children in all the different workshops.
The statues fan out around the platform as a massive human shield in the zone of the no man’s land. They form a symbolical boundary on the site where hundred years ago inhumane suffering took place and this for four years long.
In my album 1914-1918 Remembered.