Word: zevenaar
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...hung their works from overhead ducts and rafters throughout Turmac's cigarette-making factory in Zevenaar, on the Dutch-German border. The first paintings were abstracts and figuratives, but it was not long before Orlow discovered that the workers tired of the latter almost as swiftly as they tired of their machines. From then on, Orlow stuck strictly to abstracts, moving them about his factory every two or three months-sometimes to the vocal displeasure of employees who had grown fond of a particular painting. At such moments, says Orlow, "I know they really love them...
...this began six years ago. Now 200 paintings hang in the Zevenaar plant and two newer Turmac factories at Harderwijk in The Netherlands and near Zurich, Switzerland. Last month 31 of the works began a six-week showing at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in the Louvre Palace, which is a pretty good place to hang...
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