Tentvillage Revisited

The TENTVILLAGE-REVISITED ( TVR ) is a work in which architecture, design and sculpture join together. Encountering is inevitable. People are living around, beside and on top of each other. Truly we can see a dialogue between private and public live.
“The way in which the individual modules are set together as a village, the arrangement of common and private spaces, the different levels and proximities of the tents, are done in many different ways. It depends on the group of people that will live in it and the social implications it deals with. All tents together form an image like a miniature society. Over and under, inside-outside, fullness and emptiness, the qualities of the used materials, constructivity, moving around and through, being present, the way light plays with the transparency of the canvas and moves over the surface of the material...
...All these qualities, together with design, functionality and necessity, set up a situation of encountering.”

After the succes of the Treetent ( 1998 ) a commission followed by a number of campsites.
I presented a cluster of tents, with the idea of “ a society in small “ in the fall of 2000.
At the end 4 campsites ordered Tentvillages, each one built out of 3 modules.
In 2007 I had the change to repurchase one of those works and revisit it,
restore it, add elements to it ( the so called “sky-pit” ), and show how I had forseen it.
It became possible to present the work as a free standing sculpture on site.
It can be loaned and used for shows directly from Studio Dré Wapenaar.
It comes packed in its 20 foot container.