#leon van den eijkel

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Blocks [IMG_0077] by Kesara Rathnayake Via Flickr: Urban Forest - wind sculpture by Leon van den Eijkel in collaboration with Allan Brown. The sculpture is installed in Cobham Dr, Kilbirnie, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

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Red Cloud Confrontation by Leon van den Eijkel Follow Research.Lighting on Tumblr Source: https://soudasouda.tumblr.com/post/747508404188282880/red-cloud-confrontation-by-leon-van-den-eijkel

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Colorful Outdoor Art Installation

Red Cloud Confrontation by Leon van den Eijkel - Colorful outdoor art installation in a green field with visitors. Follow Ceramic City on Tumblr

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Red Cloud Confrontation by Leon van den Eijkel Follow Souda on Tumblr

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Leon van den Eijkel | Aesthetica Magazine

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Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape, 1996. Leon van den Eijkel 

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Sculpture On The Gulf #1 Looking back: Waiheke Island’s spectacular sculpture art walk along Te Miro Bay, Te Whetumatarau & Mataitai Bay. • Round and Round / by Leon van den Eijkel • Brunel’s Kingdom / by Jon Hall • Hinaki / by Virginia King • Garden Shed / by Brit Bunkley & Andrea Gardner • Seven Sisters / by James Wright (pictured) • Liberace / by Phil Price • Kākano - Seed / by Sally Smith • GROUND ZERO / by Robert Jahnke • Te Ara Kei Runga / by Ngāhina Hohaia • Whuture whakairo / by Kareamea Taepa #sculptureonthegulf2019 #sculpturewalkwaiheke #waihekeisland (at Perpetual Guardian Sculpture on the Gulf) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvgf-wmFjbm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1poe8ggtsvkf1

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Leon van den Eijkel

Reflective Cubes 003, 2004

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Leon Eijkel Death - Obituary | Leon Eijkel Has Died

Leon van den Eijkel Death - Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On April 30th, 2021, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Leon Eijkel through social media publication made on Twitter. Click to read and leave tributes.

Leon van den Eijkel Death – Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On April 30th, 2021, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Leon Eijkel through social media publication made on Twitter. InsideEko is yet to confirm Leon Eijkel’s case of death as no health issues, accident or other causes of death have been learned to be associated with the passing. This death has caused a…

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[above: Horizons, Neil Dawson]

These sculptures catch your attention? Visit New Zealand’s astonishing Gibbs Farm, created by businessman Alan Gibbs (visitors can only come by appointment, however!)

Every individual sculpture has been created by a single unique artist, varying from the works of Zhan Wang and Leon van den Eijkel to Daniel Buren. The commissioned pieces were added to Gibbs’ 700 acre art appreciation park. 

The spindling trees and winding hills frame every statued wonder perfectly, painting the eloquence of art and nature together in a marveling blend. Every couple feet is a new little something to admire, a gigantic monument of beauty to gasp at.

The hills are waiting. Go see something phenomenal.

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A Rare Visit To New Zealand’s Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park

A Rare Visit To New Zealand’s Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park

Art

by Sally Tabart

‘Te Tuhirangi Contour’ (1999-2001), Richard Serra. Photo – David Hartley.

‘Horizons’ (1994), Neil Dawson. Photo – David Hartley.

‘Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape’ (1996), Leon van den Eijkel. Photo – David Hartley.

‘Arches’ (2005), Andy Goldsworthy. Photo – David Hartley.

‘Jacob’s Ladder’ (2017), Gerry Judah. Photo – David Hartley.

‘88.5° ARC x 8’ (2012), Bernar Venet. Photo – David Hartley.

‘Dismemberment, Site 1’ (2009). Anish Kapoor. Photo – David Hartley.

‘A Fold In The Field’ (2013), Maya Lin. Photo – David Hartley.

‘Floating Island of Immortals’ (2006), Zhan Wang. Photo – David Hartley.

Gibbs Farm is a world-class sculpture park founded by business magnate and art philanthropist Alan Gibbs who, among many things, is known for pioneering high-speed amphibious vehicle technologies. An hour north of Auckland, set amongst rural farmland, the splendour of the natural location is awe-inspiring, and the scale is impossible to describe. Undulating grassy hills extend as far as the eye can see, at its peak overlooking the shallow Kaipara harbour (the largest in the Southern Hemisphere). This vista occupies the entire western horizon. While the land encompassed by Gibbs Farm is not suitable for farming, the traditional foundation of the New Zealand economy, the yield of this soil is a series of massive sculptures by some of the world’s most respected artists. Perched upon hilltops, emerging from gulleys and erupting from lakes, the spectacular works appear to have sprung from the earth itself. ‘We push the limits,’ founder Alan Gibbs said in an interview with curator Rob Garrett, ‘No sane person would do what we’re doing.’ And I haven’t even mentioned the ‘Farm’ animals yet, including zebras, giraffes, water buffalo and emus that freely roam the property. First purchasing the Gibbs Farm land in 1991, Alan has certainly amassed sculptures from the cream of the crop over half a century of collecting. Working alongside architect Noel Lane, Alan and his team have commissioned site-specific works from world-renowned artists including Anish Kapoor, Andy Goldsworthy, Marijke de Goey, Richard Serra and Maya Lin – to name just a few. Though many have heard almost mythically proportioned tales of Gibbs Farm (one staff member quietly hinted to a full-scale Old West style town hidden within the depths of the Farm), to actually sight the sculpture park is a rare privilege. While there is no fee for visiting the Farm, Gibbs Farm is open monthly by prior appointment only to artists, educational institutions, charities and the public. Best explored on foot, visitors are free to move throughout the property, although it would take at least an entire day to see everything (well, everything that we know of!).  Stephanie Post, the co-director of the Auckland Art Fair who organised my visit to the elusive park, contextualised the gravity Gibbs Farm has for New Zealand. ‘…this extraordinary landscape has inspired some of the great contemporary artists of our time to make some of their most outstanding site-specific abstract sculptural works, in response to the place and time,’ she explains to me, ‘Gibbs Farm reminds me that while New Zealand is a small country, on the edge of the map, as it is currently drawn, there is no reason why expectations cannot be exceeded, the best bettered, and experiences like no other created.’

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Urban Forest [IMG_0075] by Kesara Rathnayake Via Flickr: Urban Forest - wind sculpture by Leon van den Eijkel in collaboration with Allan Brown. The sculpture is installed in Cobham Dr, Kilbirnie, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.

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Leon van den Eijkel, Red Cloud Confrontation in Landscape, (1996). 

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After walking & viewing Waiheke Island’s Sculpture On The Gulf, there’s no better way to reflect than a splendid lunch at The Courtyard, Oneroa. Aunty Pauline Evill of Lawson’s Dry Hills Wines introduced Uncle to: • Heirloom tomato, buffalo mozzarella, nectarine salad. • Fig carpaccio, curd, prosciutto, salted peanut brittle. Ingredients so fresh, in season, locally sourced and presented without fuss, it was a perfect seal to a wonderful day on this jewel in the Gulf. Well done Chef Brent Mills. * one of Uncle’s favourite sculptures, Round and Round, by Leon van den Eijkel. #thecourtyardwaiheke #oneroa #insalatacaprese #buffalomozzarella #figcarpaccio #prosciutto #sculptureonthegulf2019 #roundandround #leonvandeneijkel (at The Courtyard) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvgkkcXloB2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=coiej0v74b94

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Towards the Sky [IMG_0050] by Kesara Rathnayake Via Flickr: Urban Forest - wind sculpture by Leon van den Eijkel in collaboration with Allan Brown. The sculpture is installed in Cobham Dr, Kilbirnie, Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington.