page_title: Kees Verschuren
section_title: Rock in Water, 1970s
hierarchical_section_title: Kees Verschuren / Work / Rock in Water, 1970s
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Rotterdamse Haven Europort 28 mei, 2005. Foto nl:NASA
context_page_description: Henricus Petrus Cornelis Verschuren is a Dutch sculptor, painter and former lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, known for his monumentalist sculptures in public places in the Netherlands.
context_section_description: In the 1970s, in cooperation with Dutch sculptor Teun Jacob (1927-2009), Verschuren created a massive land art project at the first Maasvlakte, entitled Steen in water (Rock in Water). This industrial area in the Port of Rotterdam was built on land reclaimed from the North Sea in the 1960s. In a period of over five years, adjacent to a power plant, the artists developed an area into the largest work of art in the Netherlands in those days. The beeldenmagazine.nl (2015) summarized:
  Verschuren and Jacob discovered their own form of Land Art. They combined ideas of earthwork in nature with the environmental art of the Arnhem school. Besides planting, they processed many industrial materials such as asphalt and concrete in their design. It took no less than five years before the project was completed. This had to do with the size but also with the prevailing participation culture, typical of the seventies. For Jacob and Verschuren it was hard working; on meetings and exhibitions, there was little interest while afterwards they received all kinds of criticism. The land art of Jacob and Verschuren is slowly disappearing with the advent of new plants and the operation of nature.
  The environmental artwork was commissioned by the Government of Rotterdam and the local electric power company, who operated the power plant. In the course of the land art project the land was held in a constant flux of construction, combining "industrial materials with a vegetation structure which had to withstand the North Sea storms." Among other artists, that participated in the project, were Marinus Boezem and Carel Visser.
caption: "First" Maasvlakte in 2005, before the construction of the Maasvlakte 2 in 2008.[18]
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