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Installation Bergkerk Deventer (NL).

In 1999 Piet dared to interact with the interior of the 800-year-old Bergkerk church in Deventer. The title of this installation hints at our temporality and transience: “Remember, O man, that thou art of dust and to porcelain thou shalt return.” 

Masses of inverted empty, blue and white porcelain urns were mathematically positioned on the loaded tombstone floor of the church. Was this an army of soldiers in nearly identical uniforms? Or some variations of the pieces of a Persian chess game waiting to be resisted? Or was this about the knight from Bergman's film the “Seventh Seal” having to think about his next move at the game of chess against death? 

The pieces placed on chests could also be seen as the original elite of local society. The rich stinkers from under the tombstones next to the vulgar “populus” with their inferior place in the church community, who were not allowed to be buried there. 

In addition to his purely functional way of thinking, this installation shows Piet's versatility, with poetic and inspired interventions in the architectural environment.

Drs. Stan Petrusa, former director Stedelijk Museum

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