Names The Brain EMC
The Faculty of Medicine of the Erasmus University (1965 - 1986 Architects: OD 205, A. Hagoort, G. Martens and J. Prouvé) with its white hygienic monolithic appearance, is one of the most beautiful buildings in Rotterdam. Owing to my long time interest in medical atlases, which I have used time and again in my drawings, I became interested in working on the interior walls of the building.
Chris de Zeeuw, the head of the Neurology Dept. who was acquainted with my work, invited me to a work with sections of the brain on the elevator lobby of his department on the 12th floor. The elevator lobby comprises a construction of 4 horizontal smoothly finished concrete beams above the lift doors.
Referring to a medical atlas, I made slides from all the coronal and sagittal sections of the brain displayed. I projected the slides of these sections onto the concrete surface and wrote down all the Latin terms for the cerebral parts of each section in the exact colours, directions and dimensions. Facing north are the coronal sections of the front of the brain, facing south, the back coronal sections; and east and west, the sections of the right and left halves of the brain. In contrast with working on white paper, I was now able, due to the grey background, to write the grey cerebral parts which are coloured white in the section images.
I adapted the direction and colour of the existing lighting in the lobby.
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Guus Vreeburg: Toine Horvers, into the brain
year | 2001 |
location | Erasmus University, Department of Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences,Rotterdam NL |
brief description | Four colour pencil drawings based on sections of the brain, on concrete beams in elevator hall 12th floor, Erasmus MC |
photography | Bob Goedewaagen |
materials | colour pencils |
size | 4 x 70 x 70 cm |