Oscar Lourens - PROJECT PROBE #2

probably a garage-under-construction in the village of Glikoneri in Greek Thrace, and it was perfect in its simplicity. Glikoneri had all that is needed for a house, nothing more and nothing less: four columns and a roof on a concrete foundation. Oscar Lourens made models of Glikoneri in a 1:10 and 1:20 scale, as well as a 1:4 model.

The latter was interesting. By resizing the original to a 1:4 for scale, the archetypical building of Glikoneri was transformed into the basic structure something completely different. In the setting of Lourens’ studio, Glikoneri became a life size table.

The PROBE exhibition is an exploration of dimensions, in which everything - the exhibition room, its doors and all the works of art - is made on a 1:4 scale. Oscar Lourens exhibits the Glikoneri models in the PROBE exhibition room.

11