artist: Leo Vroegindeweij
located in: Verpleeghuis Pniël,
client: Verpleeghuis Pniël

For the courtyard of this nursing home, Leo Vroegindeweij (Dirksland, 1955) designed a serial sculpture made up of twelve identical bronze shapes. The shapes are based on a dodecahedron (an object with twelve surfaces). This shape has a long history that originates with Plato and alludes to cosmological theories. The Romans made many bronze dodecahedrons. Yet neither the exact meaning of these objects nor the reasons for their use are completely understood. Vroegindeweij pleated the surfaces of each dodecahedron according to a sinus-shaped wave, featuring wavelengths ranging between 1 and 12. The shapes were each placed in different positions on light green concrete circles. The number twelve reappears in the work since the irregular placing of the shapes on the lawn seem to follow the axes of a clock’s face or a sundial.