GOEDENDAG / ONE HOT BLUE BALL
Triptych: nine photographs of intervention)(Prologue),
Performance (Masterplan)
and Tattoo (Epilogue), 2007
The demolishing of De Groots former house (see Motel Nooitgedacht) led to this special project in three parts.
After De Groot left the house which was soon to be demolished and boarded up with wooden plates to prevent people to enter the house.
For the prologue of GOEDENDAG/ONE HOT BLUE BALL, De Groot used his circle saw to make saw cuts in the wood that covered the windows.
Together with photographer Johannes Schwartz he documented this intervention in nine photographs from both the inside and the outside of the house. The daylight shimmered through the cuts, revealing the empty rooms. At night the opposite effect was created by placing artificial lights in the house, re-enacting the life that once was.
For the Masterplan De Groot used all the material of his demolished house to build a sculpture. This ball-like collage measuring of 2,5 m ø, referred to a demolition ball as well as a huge ‘Goedendag’, a mediaeval weapon. The ball was then chained to a pick-up car and De Groot set himself inside of the sculpture. The ball was dragged through the harbour of IJmuiden at moderate speed, with the artist inside.
Since 1997 de Groot has been collecting ‘souvenirs’ of his work in the form of tattoos. ?With Goedendag/One hot blue ball it is the first time that a tattoo is part of the whole project. A fumbled up maquette of the original house is the base for the permanent image inside De Groot’s skin.
G/OHBB, prologue; photo: Johannes Schwartz
G/OHBB, prologue; photo: Johannes Schwartz
G/OHBB, prologue; photo: Johannes Schwartz
G/OHBB, epilogue; sketch for a tattoo