| Architect |
Eva Panhuys
& Bob Bais with DeJong Gortemaker Algra |
| Date
Built |
Delivered
2008 |
| Location |
Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat 38 |
| Description |
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This is one of three buildings entitled
Furore A to C located next door to each
other on Eerste Constantijn
Huygensstraat. This building is home
to Mentrum, an adult psychiatric
facility. Your eye is attracted to
the building from some distance away by
the sculpture that adorns the front.
It features a person standing out over the
street atop a series of ladders.
Created by the Russian American artists
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, it is entiteld
"How to Meet an Angel". The SKOR.NL website explains that, " How to Meet an Angel portrays a man who has climbed a ladder. He stands with widespread arms on the top rung, ready to leave the clinic, to embrace the city, and perhaps meet a guardian angel. The sculpture was designed free of charge by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at the request of Mentrum, and was developed and supported by SKOR | Foundation for Art and the Public Domain. The artwork was specially made for Mentrum’s new psychiatric clinic on the Eerste Constantijn Huygensstraat in Amsterdam."  When I took a
photograph of the man on the ladder in
2015, he had company because a crow was
perching on his hand.
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Furore
Block B, Amsterdam, Holland
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