RECLAMATION

August 31 - November 15, 2008
Museum De Paviljoens, SITE 2F7
Outdoors and open to the public at all times

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lincoln school

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Made possible by
the Jan van Eyck Academie
and Museum De Paviljoens

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Reclamation, 2007/2008

Materials: high resolution photographs printed on self-adhesive vinyl, applied to a plywood frame

Dimensions: 6.53 x 6.66 x .7 meters / 21.4 x 21.7 x 2.3 feet

Reclamation is a reproduction of the last remaining façade from the ghost town of Metropolis, USA. Metropolis was founded in 1910 as a

real estate venture by The Pacific Reclamation Company, though due to insufficient water rights, by 1925 the town was largely abandoned.

The last and most permanent building in Metropolis, the Lincoln School, has almost completely crumbled to the ground. Pockmarked with

bullet holes and corroding in the harsh desert weather, only the entrance remains standing in the shape of an arch.

This archway is reconstructed at 1:1 scale as a public outdoor architectural installation in Almere, the Netherlands. A three-dimensional replica

of the decaying Lincoln School is clad with high-resolution photographs of the original. The work is a combination of architecture, photography

and sculpture, and is fabricated from standard outdoor advertising and construction materials. Reclamation is located on SITE 2F7, the last

remaining undeveloped plot of land in Almere's city center, and is open for view at all times.