THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS.- Stroom Den Haag presents the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands of the versatile French artist Raphaël Zarka, on view from May 29 through August 21, 2011. “Nature is an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.” This poetic quote from the French mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal could refer to the broad spectrum and the continuous character of Zarka’s work and the link between his various projects. In addition to sculptures and photographs the exhibition at Stroom features his latest production ‘Gibellina Vecchia’. In this short film Zarka meticulously records the monumental artwork Alberto Burri created in the 1980s on the ruins of the Sicilian town of Gibellina, which was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. Raphaël Zarka (1977, Montpellier) is fascinated by forgotten spaces and undefined areas, where