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My Delft Blue Bionic Bic Pen Thrash Tiles On Biggest Skatepark In Amsterdam

Hello, I am Arno Coenen, and three years ago, to my joy, I got an art assignment from the city of Amsterdam to make a series of Delft Blue tile panels on the biggest skatepark in the Netherlands, designed by Rune Glifberg, they planned to build.

Three years later, and months and months of drawing, assisted by Ton Haring and Simian Switch, then the piece was done, and the skatepark was a tremendous success.

The work is called “an Outcast’s Sanctuary” and celebrates the punky, thrashy, subcultural 80’s roots of what is now an Olympic sport.

I was in high school in the 80’s listening to Slayer and doodling with my BIC ballpoints during class.

Now I am 47 and still doodling during meetings. And 3 of my kids find refuge in the skateparks that are, indeed, the outcast’s sanctuary now.

More info: arnocoenen.eu

An Outcast’s Sanctuary

My Delft Blue Bionic Bic Pen Thrash Tiles On Biggest Skatepark In Amsterdam

Initial sketches for the project

My Delft Blue Bionic Bic Pen Thrash Tiles On Biggest Skatepark In Amsterdam

Obligatory selfie (Me on the left)

My Delft Blue Bionic Bic Pen Thrash Tiles On Biggest Skatepark In Amsterdam

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As a professional artist I work mostly in the field of public art . In my eclectic work I like to fuse the old and the new, make crossovers between styles, times and topics. Crossover is my middlename, I don't like to be labeled a single genre or subcultre, I try to defy those rules. I love the multimedium that a computer is as a tool and combine 3d graphics, printing, cnc waterjet techniques with oldschool materials and media such as mozaik and Delft Blue tiles. My most wellknown work is the ceiling of the Markthal in Rotterdam, a 2 soccerfield wide 3d rendering echoing the Sisteen Chappel.

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This dude right here? He works as a Community Manager at Bored Panda. Has no back-story, cause his spine works just fine. He writes about himself in third-person, and in first-person about others. Fell in love with storytelling and cannot let that love go. Now, he's here to help you make your own story simply beautiful. Secretly makes cute music samples and writes stories in the dark that nobody has ever heard of before.

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Paula Gray 4 years ago

Just beautiful. A wonderful modern twist and so very Dutch.

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Sloopi 4 years ago

Gorgeous. Where I'm from they just hand some guy a bunch of spray paint cans and give him an afternoon to tag the whole thing.

2points

MysticalMan 4 years ago

Art in a place of motion.

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Paula Gray 4 years ago

Just beautiful. A wonderful modern twist and so very Dutch.

2points

Sloopi 4 years ago

Gorgeous. Where I'm from they just hand some guy a bunch of spray paint cans and give him an afternoon to tag the whole thing.

2points

MysticalMan 4 years ago

Art in a place of motion.

2points

My Delft Blue Bionic Bic Pen Thrash Tiles On Biggest Skatepark In Amsterdam

An Outcast’s Sanctuary

Initial sketches for the project

Obligatory selfie (Me on the left)

Arno

Arno

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