Street art · Amsterdam
Photo: Ceescamel, CC BY-SA 4.0
Open zuil, Frans Mossou 1988
By Frans Mossou
By the water's edge in Amsterdam, a weathered Corten steel column twists skyward like a slit ribbon of rust. Frans Mossou's 1988 'Open Zuil' echoes minimalist land-art monoliths while the oxidized skin ages into the landscape itself.
Source: OpenStreetMap contributors, photo via Wikimedia Commons.
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