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By using tubes in a rhythmic construction, I strive for a balance between mass and volume'. This is what sculptor Renée van Loon said about one of her objects from 1984. The object in question is made of metal tubes, which are stacked in the form of a triangle without a top. A metal plate acts as a back wall, giving the total sculpture a rectangular shape.
It is clear; Van Loon makes abstract geometric sculptures. Like her tube object, her sculpture the 'Twelve Arches' near the Lijnbaan on the corner with the Westeinde is a balanced 'rhythmic construction'.
Twelve blue metal curved strips stand on a circular concrete slab. Although the twelve strips are not evenly distributed across the concrete slab, there is still a sense of rhythm. Just as in music compositions, notes and moments of rest alternate and melodies repeat, Van Loon has composed her object: five arcs, an open space, another seven arcs and a large open space. And as long as you keep walking around the concrete slab, this motif repeats itself.
The arches, as the strips are called in the title of the sculpture, are not arches in the strict sense of the word. The semicircle, or arc, is deformed; it has one straight side and one inwardly curved side. As a result, the arcs reach out to each other. They can be connected to each other with an imaginary, curved line.