🗿Eddy Roos (Amsterdam, born 1949) is a Dutch artist and sculptor

 🗿Eddy Roos (Amsterdam, born 1949) is a Dutch artist and sculptor. He has also directed 42 dance films and designed gardens.

The former curator of the Groningen estate, Mrs. Tine Clevering-Meijer, invited the sculptor from Amsterdam (Hogelande) to implement her ideas in the form of such a sculpture garden in the estate.

Eddy Roos cherished the dream of his own sculpture garden, enchanted by the sculpture garden of Aristide Maillol in the Louvre in Paris.
He was also attracted by the example of Brancusi, who realized a similar project in a Romanian town, which attracted him more.

Since 1967, Mrs. Clevering has been redesigning the landscape garden around the estate, dating back to the 13th century and belonging to the Ommeland family Tjarda van Starkenborgh. A garden was laid out on the estate. The gardens that the 16th-century architect Vredeman de Vries introduced in the Northern Netherlands were taken as an example.

Roos developed a balanced project to accommodate thirteen bronze sculptures, including five paired figures. After initial financial support from the government, the project is now financed by private sponsors.
The sculpture garden in Verhildersum is the embodiment of a long-standing ambition of Eddy Rooss.
At first, he wanted to develop a thematic concept from Asian symbolism about the path of life. Then he abandoned this idea as too pretentious and a stylistic criterion.
Now he considers it more important to create a natural movement in his dancing figures. He searches for an inner arabesque, an almost abstract line of movement that manifests itself in the distinct curve of the spine. For him, this arabesque embodies inner emotions such as playfulness, joie de vivre, energy and sensuality.

This thematic concept is not only visible in the ten sculptures installed in the Verhildersum sculpture garden. An identical sensibility is evident in two large monumental commissions that he realized in the Dutch metropolitan area: a floating double sculpture in the north of Amsterdam commemorating the battle of the Dutch members of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War and a monumental dancing figure in a round frame in the Rotterdam metro.
From the very beginning of his career as a sculptor, Eddy Roos was extremely fascinated by dance and movement. This was also expressed in his constant interest in choreography. Soon after his academic days, this interest led to some experience in the theater, in various dance and pantomime events. 

Of great importance for his development as a sculptor were his subsequent intensive contacts with the modern dancer Pauline de Groot. Around 1985, he then followed very closely the dance performances of Pina Bausch and her group from Wuppertal.

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