Who sculpted Dansend vierkant?

Dansend vierkant was sculpted by Marijke de Goey.

Where is Dansend vierkant?

Dansend vierkant stands in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands.

When was Dansend vierkant made?

Dansend vierkant dates from 1989.

What is Dansend vierkant made of?

Dansend vierkant is a steel sculpture.

Can I use the photographs of Dansend vierkant on this page?

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Dansend vierkant

Also known as Dancing Square

A single steel square, 25 m high, folded and set on one corner so that it seems to balance on a point, painted the sky-blue the artist calls Marijkeblauw so that it reads against the sky in every season. It stands beside the Pleijroute (N325) at the Sacharovbrug in Arnhem-Zuid as the marker for the bridge, one of the works of the 1980–88 Masterplan Beeldende Kunst Pleijroute led by environmental artist Wim Korvinus. Marijke de Goey won the 1987 competition for the commission against Klaas Gubbels and Auke de Vries; her own site dates the finished work 1989, while several Dutch references give 1987, the year the road opened. The square rises from a 1.5 × 1.5 × 16 m foundation planted over with blue-flowering Vinca minor. Seen from a moving car it shifts from symmetric to asymmetric and at moments seems to turn — the "improbable balance" De Goey intended. In 2006 it was voted into the top five of the best Dutch works of art of the past fifty years. Sources: marijkedegoey.com (Dancing Square); absolutefacts.nl (Dansend vierkant in Arnhem); artatsite.com.

Sculptor: Marijke de Goey
Made: 1989
Material: Steel
Where: Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Coordinates: 51.95666, 5.92831 — open the map
Source: Wikidata Q140192954 — the facts above come from here. Something wrong? Correct it at the source and it flows back.

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Who sculpted Dansend vierkant?: Dansend vierkant was sculpted by Marijke de Goey.
Where is Dansend vierkant?: Dansend vierkant stands in Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands.
When was Dansend vierkant made?: Dansend vierkant dates from 1989.
What is Dansend vierkant made of?: Dansend vierkant is a steel sculpture.
Can I use the photographs of Dansend vierkant on this page?: Each photograph carries its own credit and licence in its caption. The main photograph is credited to Michielverbeek (CC BY-SA 4.0). Check the caption before reusing any of them — the terms belong to the photograph, not to this page.

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