Dutch police hunting Giant Roc
Leeuwarden, the Netherlands: hometown of MC Escher and Mata Hari.
Henk Hofstra’s “Art Eggcident” — not an accident at all, of course, but a sunny-side-up sculpture installation — will be frying in the Zaailand, a public square in Friesland’s capital, all summer long. The puns have been cracking since the immense ova went on view earlier this month, with some advocating a side exhibition of Francis Bacon, but it’s no yolk!
Hofstra, who’s a witty 54, continues to be given extreme elbow room in Holland for some (probably humorous) reason. Last time it was the town of Drachten letting him paint 1,000 metres of roadway cerulean blue. From the air it looked like a river, but just in case Hofstra added the message in white “water is life”.
