{"id":811,"date":"2017-03-21T12:14:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T12:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2017-07-20T12:20:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:20:30","slug":"marcin-dudek-pl-o1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/2017\/03\/marcin-dudek-pl-o1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcin Dudek (PL, \u00ba1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cathedral of Human Labour<\/p>\n<p>Leading out from an inconspicuous spot beside the Belgian motorway in Kemzeke, this underground sculpture provides a permanently open hidden passageway into the grounds of the Verbeke Foundation. <i>Cathedral of Human Labour<\/i> (2014) is a cheerfully collaged piece of land art, built from approximately 60 tons of wood initially used as temporary supports for the concrete construction of a railway tunnel in the infrastructure of Antwerp harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel\u2019s warped and seemingly rough interior is claustrophobically reminiscent of trenches, narco-tunnels, passages of flight. It echoes the state of mental turbulence encountered at border controls, and refers to earlier works constructed with tape. The walls have a distinctly sculptural quality. Each carefully composed metre can be perceived as a collage in itself. While some parts call Gothic cathedrals or Expressionist architecture to mind, others seem to be collapsing or frozen in movement, as if a revolving door were about to open. Inside there is also a sealed door, waiting for Dudek to remove it and continue excavating as the work is extended.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018<b>[. . .] work, and the massive experience of it, is right at the centre of our living culture, considered as a way of life. Work is a living and active area of human involvement \u2013 it makes, and is made by, us. It affects the general social nature of our lives in the most profound ways.\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Paul E. Willis, <i><b>Human Experience and Material Production: The Culture of the Shop Floor<\/b><\/i><b>, Stencilled Occasional Paper, Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, 1975, p. 3.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/marcin-dudek.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marcin Dudek<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_media_grid grid_id=&#8221;vc_gid:1500553208686-0b2172ec-9a32-8&#8243; include=&#8221;812,813&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cathedral of Human Labour Leading out from an inconspicuous spot beside the Belgian motorway in Kemzeke, this underground sculpture provides a permanently open hidden passageway into the grounds of the Verbeke Foundation. Cathedral of Human Labour (2014) is a cheerfully collaged piece of land art, built from approximately 60 tons of wood initially used as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedendaagse-kunst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verbekefoundation.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}