Climbing Wall and Double Disc with Stairs in Coarse Rubble Hill, Spaarnwoude, 1986-1992
‘I was concerned with the cooperation of opposites. For geometry and nature. The artwork is part of it.' Frans de Wit‘Rock wall making is a hell of a job’. Even if it takes years of effort to create an impossible structure, Frans de Wit does not shun from inventing constructions to achieve his creation. “I always create an endless number of models, because my constructions are as complicated as architecture. Visually, I capture it in its entirety and only then can I see what needs to be done constructively and technically.”
De Wit consulted with mountaineers to ensure that the construction of the Climbing Wall met various climbing requirements. In Belgium, Industrial designer Frans Schrofer assisted him on this major project. They selected rock formations with the right structure and made molds of the rock wall to be casted in concrete.
Art critic Wouter Welling is reminded of a temple complex from archaic cultures. ‘It resembles an Aztec temple, where the stairs lead to the alter where the high priest conducts a sacrifice to one of the gods of nature.’