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BikiniBar and the Renard
Beach resort ‘Pornopark’, IJmuiden
North Amsterdam Sea Canal
IJmuiden Netherlands
Atelier Van Lieshout, 2006
Prosper Jerominus © 2020
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Atelier Van Lieshout, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2006
A meeting point for elderly people: beautiful, cruel and sensual, with a nice interior space. Both art and architecture, BikiniBar represents a building as a sculpture and a sculpture as a building. There is a place to rest inside, where people can withdraw from the busy beach life or bad weather. BikiniBar is the only female body you can enter without permission.
“The piece itself, it’s not really very explicit,” Lieshout told the New York Times. “It’s a very abstracted shape. There are no genitals. It’s pretty innocent.”
“Ooh la la, this Dutch sculpture is raising eyebrows.The Louvre Museum in France has pulled a sculpture installation because it was too dirty — appearing to depict two ägures having sex.The sculpture, titled “The Domestikator,” was scheduled to be on display at the Louvre beginning Oct. 19 for the International Contemporary Art Fair (FIAC). It was created by art collectiveAtelier Van Lieshout, led by Joep Van Lieshout. The 30-ton, 40-foot architectural piece’s coloring is reminiscent of barn house red, but with two Lego-style block ägures in coitus.According to French newspaper, Le Monde, the president of the Louvre, Jean-Luc Martinez, wrote a letter to FIAC saying that the sculpture was “a vision too brutal” and it could bemisunderstood by their visitors and children.The piece was on display at the Ruhrtriennale in Bochum, Germany, as the central piece in their “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” art village. It also doubled as a VIP hotel.
Lieshout told Le Monde the decision was “total hypocrisy” and that “if children see something sexual, it is because they are old enough to see it.””
Het kunstwerk heet De Bikinibar en is bedoeld als rust- en schuilplaats, ‘waarin mensen zich kunnen terugtrekken van het drukke strandleven of het slechte weer’. Het is, zoals de kunstenaar zelf aangeeft, ‘het enige vrouwenlichaam dat zonder toestemming kan worden betreden’.
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Onderdeel van groter plan De gemeente liet eerder weten dat de kunstwerken onderdeel zijn van een groter plan voor het gebied rondom de jachthaven van IJmuiden. “In de komende periode verkennen ondernemers, kunstenaars en wetenschappers, verzameld onder de naam FabCityNature, de potentie van dit gebied met diverse pop-upinitiatieven. De kunstwerken van Joep van Lieshout zijn onderdeel van dit initiatief.”
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