Newport, Nieuport. A small town at the estuarium of the Yser river at the Belgium West coast. Once the battleground during WWI where the war was settled, but today a beautiful coastal town and home of Jan Fabre’s statue ‘searching for Utopia’.
Just before we left to spend the weekend, I impulsively grabbed a bunch of artificial roses. I don’t know why but i felt they would be part of something. The sky was heavy, rainy and grey. And those roses proved to be a colourful detail.
The equestrian statue ‘Men’ on the breakwater is an artwork of Nina Beier. Hooves firmly in the ground, they defy ebb and flow. The work was first shown here during the Beaufort art project but was given a permanent place. At high tide, the horses stand with their feet in the sea, at low tide you can touch horses and riders.
