BELGIUM: Cityscape, an 18 metres high wooden sculpture designed by Belgium artist Arne Quinze, goes in display in Brussels

Brussels residents marvelled at a new urban sculpture on Friday night (September 14) when Belgian artist Arne Quinze unveiled its latest work with a mesmerizing show of light and sound. The sculpture came to life under rays of light and a soundtrack where birdsongs followed noises from the wilderness. Depending on which angle you are looking the art piece from, its shape evokes a bird, a crocodile, a cloud or a spaceship. This huge ephemeral wooden sculpture was created by Belgian artist Arne Quinze. It will try and seduce passers by for a year. ''For me it was very important to create an atmosphere that that people start to dreaming again and that they are like floating in the universe that they can make themselves, I try to open their minds and I hope people make their own imagination,'' Quinze explained. Cityscape took about 2 weeks to build and stands proud at 18 metres high. Erected on a barren building site, it spreads across 40 metres by Quinze has made similar sculptures in the Nevada desert last year. What the artist wants to do with this massive city sculpture is to convey energy and movement as well as reviving a previously abandoned site. Quinze says he wants people to see it as "speed caught in time". He is also really keen to get people to interact with it walking through the 12 metres high beams of wood which, when assembled, look like a forest of giant matchsticks randomly packed on top of each other. ''You have sculptures where you can look at it and on the other way you have sculpture that absorbs you. And I hope that this sculpture at the same time gives also an energy to the rest, to the rest of the city and again that also work as a communication tool that attract the people, that they come together and they have just a smile on their face,'' Quinze said.

ITN Source | September 16, 2007

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