Het Wonder van Wateringse Veld, 2010
Book, 20 x 13.3 cm, 160 p, language: Dutch, publisher: Bleiswijk: Studio 3005, ISBN: 978 90 78627 11 1.
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2025/467).
Literary synopsis In the summer of 2010, Vinex location Wateringse Veld was rocked by a number of unexplained events. At the same time, two public letters appear in the local newspaper in which the author, John Wayne, mentions the catastrophic tilt of the magnetic field of the earth as predicted by the Mayans. However, Wayne predicts a positive turn instead of a catastrophe: 21-12-2012 marks the beginning of an era in which creativity and imagination will play an important role. Wateringse Veld is the preferred location, but will first have to endure a number of ordeals. Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice Q.S. Serafijn wrote *The Miracle of Wateringse Veld* as a counterpoint to the contemporary, aluminum cast, four-meter high statue of John Wayne that he placed in the centre of the new Vinex housing location Wateringse Veld (municipality of The Hague). Both the figure of John Wayne and the equestrian statue play an important role in the novella that is set in the new housing district. Novella and equestrian statue mirror each other. *The Miracle of Wateringse Veld* was distributed door-to-door among the residents of Wateringse Veld. [Novel website](http://www.qsserafijn.nl/boek/302)
Authorship: Artist Author.
Creative Strategy: Artwork-Novel Parallel Lives, Fictional Artist Creates Artworks.
Genre: Adventures, Fantasy.
Publishing: Art Books Publishing House, Non-profit Art Organization.
Theme: Anarchism, Art World, Identity, Love, Socio-Political Critic, Utopian Worlds.
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>Material: cast aluminium, terrazzo concrete; Dimensions: 265 x 105 x 400 cm; Year: 2010; Client: Ontwikkelingscombinatie Wateringse Veld (OCWV) in collaboration with STROOM, The Hague; Location: new housing district Wateringseveld, municipality The Hague; Photos: Q.S. Serafijn, Thijs Tromp, Ralph Kämena: Extra: the equestrian statue JOHN WAYNE is based on a polyester statue of John Wayne on horseback from the Philippines. Visual artist Gijs Assmann supervised the casting and production process. In two sessions, Assmann and Serafijn transformed the original statue into the version that became the basis for the final aluminium equestrian statue that has adorned the Laan van Wateringse Veld in the new housing site Wateringseveld since September 2010. The horseman was cast in Origgio, near Milan, by Fusioni d’Arte 3V. The final detailing was executed by the Veen based De Smelterij, in a warehouse of Tomaello bv in Vlaardingen. The statue, including its oval pedestal in graffito terrazzo concrete, is four metres high. In the evenings, the horseman is illuminated like a true monument.
>Material: cast aluminium, terrazzo concrete; Dimensions: 265 x 105 x 400 cm; Year: 2010; Client: Ontwikkelingscombinatie Wateringse Veld (OCWV) in collaboration with STROOM, The Hague; Location: new housing district Wateringseveld, municipality The Hague; Photos: Q.S. Serafijn, Thijs Tromp, Ralph Kämena: Extra: the equestrian statue JOHN WAYNE is based on a polyester statue of John Wayne on horseback from the Philippines. Visual artist Gijs Assmann supervised the casting and production process. In two sessions, Assmann and Serafijn transformed the original statue into the version that became the basis for the final aluminium equestrian statue that has adorned the Laan van Wateringse Veld in the new housing site Wateringseveld since September 2010. The horseman was cast in Origgio, near Milan, by Fusioni d’Arte 3V. The final detailing was executed by the Veen based De Smelterij, in a warehouse of Tomaello bv in Vlaardingen. The statue, including its oval pedestal in graffito terrazzo concrete, is four metres high. In the evenings, the horseman is illuminated like a true monument.
>Material: cast aluminium, terrazzo concrete; Dimensions: 265 x 105 x 400 cm; Year: 2010; Client: Ontwikkelingscombinatie Wateringse Veld (OCWV) in collaboration with STROOM, The Hague; Location: new housing district Wateringseveld, municipality The Hague; Photos: Q.S. Serafijn, Thijs Tromp, Ralph Kämena: Extra: the equestrian statue JOHN WAYNE is based on a polyester statue of John Wayne on horseback from the Philippines. Visual artist Gijs Assmann supervised the casting and production process. In two sessions, Assmann and Serafijn transformed the original statue into the version that became the basis for the final aluminium equestrian statue that has adorned the Laan van Wateringse Veld in the new housing site Wateringseveld since September 2010. The horseman was cast in Origgio, near Milan, by Fusioni d’Arte 3V. The final detailing was executed by the Veen based De Smelterij, in a warehouse of Tomaello bv in Vlaardingen. The statue, including its oval pedestal in graffito terrazzo concrete, is four metres high. In the evenings, the horseman is illuminated like a true monument.
>Material: cast aluminium, terrazzo concrete; Dimensions: 265 x 105 x 400 cm; Year: 2010; Client: Ontwikkelingscombinatie Wateringse Veld (OCWV) in collaboration with STROOM, The Hague; Location: new housing district Wateringseveld, municipality The Hague; Photos: Q.S. Serafijn, Thijs Tromp, Ralph Kämena: Extra: the equestrian statue JOHN WAYNE is based on a polyester statue of John Wayne on horseback from the Philippines. Visual artist Gijs Assmann supervised the casting and production process. In two sessions, Assmann and Serafijn transformed the original statue into the version that became the basis for the final aluminium equestrian statue that has adorned the Laan van Wateringse Veld in the new housing site Wateringseveld since September 2010. The horseman was cast in Origgio, near Milan, by Fusioni d’Arte 3V. The final detailing was executed by the Veen based De Smelterij, in a warehouse of Tomaello bv in Vlaardingen. The statue, including its oval pedestal in graffito terrazzo concrete, is four metres high. In the evenings, the horseman is illuminated like a true monument.
Artist
> Q.S. Serafijn .
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.
> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.
> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.