Certain Measuresby Sonja van Kerkhoff, 1993
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Certain Measures, 1993, the European Art Schools Exhibition,
MECC, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
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In the sculpture, Certain Measures, which is a large bar-height table with some sticks scattered on it, I was responding to the general suspicion of ´ethics´ in the Netherlands. Religion, in my view, really gets a hard time because of this.
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Certain Measures, 1999,
The Stoke Newington Library Gallery, London.
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Certain Measures, 2000,
Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui / Whanganui, New Zealand / Aotearoa. | Certain Measures, 2000,
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Certain Measures, 2000. Sarjeant Gallery,
Wanganui / Whanganui, New Zealand / Aotearoa. ![]() |
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Certain Measures, 2002, Four sticks with gold-coloured texts in Romanian burned into the wood. Each stick is 1500 cm long. Collection of the Museé d'art compare, Singeorz-Bai, Romania. |
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"Certain Measures" bears texts from the "Hidden Words" a book of wisdom sayings by Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. The texts are engraved along the sides of four wooden rods and the intention is that you need to hold or move the rods in order to read all texts. I have made these rods - I call them 'tools for the spirit' - in English and in Dutch and now in Romanian. I made the Romanian rods twice as large, partly because I had to engrave these texts by hand, and partly to give them a larger-than-life feel in an outdoor-in-nature setting. Click to view a detail ![]() Click to view a detail |
Certain Measures, 2002.
Other views in the Singeorz-Bai Public Park, Romania. |
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