Gery Bouw: Elkerlie Dream Garden, 2015

ART PROJECT

The works of Gery Bouw are often integrated in the architecture. She frequently uses glass and (moving) light. Words, texts, drawings and digital manipulated pictures combined with glass form the base of her work.
Technics are a.o. sandblasting, laminating, silk screenprinting and digital printing on glass. The glass panels produce clear open images caused by the transparancy and the different layers of the glass

Posted 29 December 2015

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"Gery Bouw is fascinated by items like connections in time, between men and nature and mutuality between people. The involvement of the residents and users of a building is an important factor for her commissions.
In that sense she acts like an intermediary between people and their environment. She appeals on the involvement of the observer, not only for the work, but also for the message. Like she let the society reflect on missing real contact. Or better: She provokes people to act differently, to open their hearts and to start relationships.
Her art, both in her commissions and her autonomous works, acts about intimacy, about human warmth and our cosmic connection with nature and with each other".
Rebecca Nelemans

Location: Wesselmanlaan 25, 5707HA Helmond
Realisation: 2015
Commision: Elkerliek Hospital Helmond

Gery Bouw: Elkerliek Hospital Helmond, 2015; detail


Gery Bouw: Elkerliek Hospital Helmond, 2015; detail		The the main hall in the hospital got a metamorphosis by the artwork. It complies to the philosophy of "Healing Environment" and "The importance of art according to Planetree ': a pleasant environment contributes positively to the healing process. It contributes significant to the well-being of patients, staff and visitors. The image on the windows in the semicircular space depicted a surreal landscape under and above water. The water is not direct visible, therefore everything seems to float. This reinforces the dreamy and surrealistic atmosphere. The images on the windows Relationship with the Elkerliek hospital: -Self-designed digital flowers and plants inspired by X-ray pictures. -Medicinal and rare plants and flowers from the Waranda Park like: Moschatel, Witch Herb and Brachypodium sylvaticum. -The water lily leaf, a symbol of the carrying capacity that is both strong and vulnerable. -A cross-section: Things below the surface to see what you normally do not see directly.

Gery Bouw: Elkerliek Hospital Helmond, 2015

Relationship with the city of Helmond:
-The castle of Helmond and the factories of Vlisco and Raymakers are depicted in the horizon.
-Animals in the Waranda Park: kingfishers, salamanders, bees, turtles, snails, fishes, butterflies and dragonflies.

Technology
Digital printed and burned enamels on glass, assembled into insulating glass. Conducted by Wimmer Glasprojecten Haelen Netherlands and AGC Mirodan Heule Belgium
Dimensions: 18 m x 4.80 m (w x h)

Gery Bouw
Sint Gerarduslaan 10
5644 NP Eindhoven, the Netherlands
+31(0)40-2112859
post@gerybouw.nl
http://www.gerybouw.nl/