Mid-Summer's Night Dream by Wessel Couzijn, ArtworxTO, High Park, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON
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Mid Summer’s Night Dream by Wessel Couzijn, High Park: Lying in the grass by the path are two barely discernible shapes in cement, wrapped in strands of stainless steel. At first it is unclear what they are, until we perceive the fingers wrapped around the side and the chrome metal “parts” on each of the shapes. These are lovers, lying side by side, oblivious to the world, their shapely contours reduced to the barest essentials, their topographies outlined in steel bands like lines on a map.
We circle around them to learn more and discover what seems to be a piece of a wing emerging at the head. This is a fragment of a dream: have these lovers crashed to earth in a rocket ship? Where have they come from?
Wessel Couzijn was a Dutch sculptor who studied in Amsterdam, Paris and Italy. Stricken with polio as a child he spent years in hospitals. A Jewish anti-fascist, Couzijn fled Nazi violence to New York in 1940, but returned after the war to teach and work in the Netherlands. In 1960 the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennial was almost wholly devoted to his work. In 1963 his bronze work “Corporate Entity” was placed outside the headquarters of Unilever in Rotterdam.
Mid-Summer's Night Dream by Wessel Couzijn, ArtworxTO, High Park, Etobicoke, Toronto, ON
Excerpt from webapp.driftscape.com/map/f91fc37e-eaa9-11eb-8000-bc1c5a8...:
Mid Summer’s Night Dream by Wessel Couzijn, High Park: Lying in the grass by the path are two barely discernible shapes in cement, wrapped in strands of stainless steel. At first it is unclear what they are, until we perceive the fingers wrapped around the side and the chrome metal “parts” on each of the shapes. These are lovers, lying side by side, oblivious to the world, their shapely contours reduced to the barest essentials, their topographies outlined in steel bands like lines on a map.
We circle around them to learn more and discover what seems to be a piece of a wing emerging at the head. This is a fragment of a dream: have these lovers crashed to earth in a rocket ship? Where have they come from?
Wessel Couzijn was a Dutch sculptor who studied in Amsterdam, Paris and Italy. Stricken with polio as a child he spent years in hospitals. A Jewish anti-fascist, Couzijn fled Nazi violence to New York in 1940, but returned after the war to teach and work in the Netherlands. In 1960 the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennial was almost wholly devoted to his work. In 1963 his bronze work “Corporate Entity” was placed outside the headquarters of Unilever in Rotterdam.