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Boogie Woogie in Winterswijk. By putting back our own interpretation of the Victory Boogie Woogie in Winterswijk, we are linking the spring with the open end. The universe has no beginning and no end, like a snake which its eating his own tail. We think the best way to honour Mondrian is by means of a monument which continues building on the open end, by constructing a new view on the Mondrian universe on the place where the first steps were made to the construction of its universe. Approximately on this spot Mondrian has drawn some of his “views” on Winterwijk.

Warp speed perspective. This picture of a dynamic universe connects closely to our own work at ONL. Different from the the painter Mondrian, we work as a sculptor and an architect in three dimensions. The interface of the monument is three-dimensional. To design the Mondrian monument we have chosen to construct the third dimension in the direction of depth. We offer a view into the third dimension of the Victory Boogie Woogie to the audience and indicate directly with that to the other side of the world where Mondrian has worked on his “unvollendete”. We offer the public a warp speed perspective from the location in Winterwijk to the open end.

Dance floor. The Mondrian Monument gets the meaning of a public dance floor. Standing on the glass surface above the sucking function of the warp speed you seem to float, one gets automatically the tendency to dance. We consider to reinforce the effect by placing loudspeakers in the grass, the whispering of sound playing a different boogie woogie’s tune generated by the computer, triggered by movement-sensors. We purpose to call the monument Winterswijk Boogie Woogie.

Mondrian route. By day, the stroller will see, from the street a gleaming glass face above an object of depth, on that moment not yet a closely determined image. The gleaming area is given place by a range of transparent plastic blocks which are lying in the extension of the series of smallest colour areas of the Victory Boogie Woogie. The transparent plastic blocks lit up in the sunlight. This image pulls the stroller in the park, one finds their way to the dancing floor and discovers the three-dimensional universe. In the evenings the plastic cubes are actively lit by means of poured in LED lighting. From above by means of a spotlight on the white Tricot building, the dance floor is illuminated. LEDs change according to a random programme of colour so that a dynamic night image of the streets of New York arises. The colours white, grey, black, yellow, red and blue are used in the original Victory Boogie Woogie. On approach to the Winterswijk Boogie Woogie, the Mondrian monument activates some sensors which will initiate an indicator to reflect sound of the boogie woogie generated by the computer.

Date: 2004

Site: Winterswijk, Tricot Park

Project artist: Ilona Lénárd, Kas Oosterhuis

Project team: Ilona Lénárd, Kas Oosterhuis, Casper Kroon, Barbara Janssen, David Milam, Hendrik Jehle

Client: Gemeente Winterswijk