Bandundu Water Jazz Band

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Bandundu Water Jazz Band is a work of art in the municipality of Tervuren, Belgium. The statue was made in 2005 by the Belgian sculptor Tom Frantzen.

Show: Tom Frantzen used the roundabout to create a circle game in which the drivers participated. The aim of the artwork is to represent Tervuren. To welcome her visitors and passers-by, Frantzen released the jazz band of African aquatic animals at the Royal Museum of Central Africa. The frogs play the accordion and the trumpet, the crocodiles the double bass and the drum and a hippopotamus the tuba. The circles in concrete are designed according to the structure of waterlily leaves and look like a rotating gramophone plate. The water rays form a chaotic rhythm of half circles.

Features: Tom Frantzen usually works in bronze in a pronounced figurative vein, but with a sense of humor and an earthliness that sometimes reminiscent of Jheronimus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel the Old. He likes to draw inspiration from the world of animals to put together groups full of fantasy and rhythm. Frantzen makes sure his footage is completely...