Via the subway in Oakland, THERE, I rose from the water in Rotterdam HIER.
I connected artwork and artists via stairs and fire and the latest work HIER DAAR connects two parts of Rotterdam. Crossing the water. I remember the first time I saw the work. I was on a Thursday night and I was standing on the South side of Rotterdam near the SS Rotterdam enjoying the great view over the water.
That’s when I first saw the neon letters HIER (HERE) on the ventilation building of the Maastunnel.
Seeing the neon word HIER made me think ‘What do you mean HIER? I’m not there I’m here.’ The word HIER on the ventilation building made me aware of where I was and made me look for the other ventilation building. Within seconds I found the other venitilation building with the word DAAR (THERE). I moved from one side of the river to the other in milliseconds and I mentally drew a line on the water where the bike tunnel would be.
Traveling with the speed of neon light I was on the other side of Rotterdam.
Want to join me going underwater?
Arriving on the other side of the river Maas I was just 5 minutes away from Museum Boijmans van Beuningen where I saw an exhibition of Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (1967, Copenhagen). Notion motion was developed specially for Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and was donated to the museum in 2005 by H+F Patronage, founded by the writer and collector, Han Nefkens. Over the past fifteen years Eliasson has built up an impressive body of work consisting of rainbows, sunsets, waterfalls, aromatic walls, mist, beams of light and periscopes. At the exhibition this notion of motion was realized by Eliasson’s fascination for motion and the elements, in this case water.
Here I was sitting on the floor watching a sponge sucking up water and being pulled up and fall down creating a spectacular ripple water landscape.
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