Koen Vanmechelen eert gevallen soldaten Eerste Wereldoorlog
The Guardian bezoekt Koen Vanmechelens monument voor de gevallen soldaten in de Eerste Wereldoorlog in Ieper. Het bestaat uit 600.000 apart gemaakte kleisculpturen.
‘Weeds are growing in a Flanders field. The straggly wild plants are sprouting through the newest first world war memorial in Belgium, one that offers a different way of remembering the conflict.
Entitled Coming World, Remember Me, the work consists of 600,000 individual clay sculptures, one for each person – soldier and civilian – killed on Belgian soil during world war one. At the centre of the installation is a giant egg, to symbolise a new world.
Allowing the weeds to grow is not a mark of irreverence, but a symbol of nature reclaiming the battlefield, according to Koen Vanmechelen, the Belgian conceptual artist behind the work….’
Meer in The Guardian