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In the IJsselbiënnale artists show their vision on climate change in the landscape of the IJssel, said to be the most beautiful of Dutch rivers.
Atelier Veldwerk focused on the oldest Canadian poplar tree of the country (Populus Canadensis ‘Marilandica’), for which they drew the zone of the crowns projection. Next to that, a young tree, – a clone of the old poplar – is planted just outside the circle in which the two hundred years old lady is supposed to fall down within only a few decades. The artists show throughout these poetical and discrete interventions a permanent reflexion on the cycle of growth, bloom, derelict and new growth. It seems like the site becomes a ritual place that invites the visitor to experience and question the landscape in it’s continous dynamics.
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Rudy Luijters and Onno Dirker, both visual artists, founded Atelier Veldwerk in 2003.
Their work focuses on the analyses and design of public space and landscape in its broadest sense.
Listing, analysing and demonstrate reality –creating a new context – is the keynote in their work; they may then make interventions but cultural analysis can also be an objective in itself. Whatever the case, visual art is always the frame of reference. Their method is that of ‘the unfocused gaze’, that is, doing research from a cultural perspective without establishing prior criteria or guidelines.
Since 2019, Atelier Veldwerk is joined by Juliette Mourad. Graduated in architecture studies oriented towards landscape and territory, Juliette collaborates in studying and valuing the significance of place, often through botany.
info[at]atelierveldwerk.eu
Onno Dirker
Beeklaan 369-371
2562 AX Den Haag, NL
+31 (0)6 1504 8250
Rudy Luijters
Hoogstraat 151
1600 Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, BE
+32 (0)47 77 98 307
Lights Crossing is the title of the work of art that is part of the city bridge De Oversteek (‘The Crossing’) in Nijmegen. The bridge was designed by the Belgian office Ney / Poulissen. It connects the banks of the river Waal in Nijmegen at the exact location of the heroic crossing on September 20, 1944. During this military action, 48 American soldiers lost their lives in one afternoon.
The work of art consists of light and time, and refers to this historic event; during twilight, after the city lights of Nijmegen have been switched on, the 48 pairs of lights on the bridge will light one by one, at the pace of a slow march. The lights will start to turn on from the south riverbank, progressively illuminating the 950 meter long route, taking approximately 12 minutes to complete the ‘crossing of light’.