Ingrid Rollema

'Horses’ heads'

Location: On the roof at Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, north side
Gift of the building team.

No doubt they form the most peculiar part of the art collection that the TU/e possesses, the two horses’ heads presented to the TU/e by the builders of the new building of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry. From the roof of the lecture hall of the building of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry it seems as if they want to storm the world. They look like realistic horses’ heads, but they are not. Nor does the bronze green look like the kind of green acquired by bronze in the course of time. Postmodernist is this use of classical shapes with odd shifts and minor deviations.
Rollema (1953) studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam. Then she read international law at the University of Leiden and art philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She has had exhibitions in Russia, Mexico, Poland and Italy, among other places.

Sculptures

Ingrid Rollema