BIG ART 2024 - ‘Donker Licht’, reflections on a city in lock down.
About BIG ART:
A pop-up platform for XL artworks and huge design objects, brought to you by a blend of established galleries, artists and designers as well as upcoming talents. Every year BIG ART occupies a special building in or around Amsterdam where dozens of galleries, artists and designers fill the place with a unique mix of monumental paintings and drawings, large sculptures and photographs, mesmerizing lightart and impressive interactive installations. On show, and for sale.
THE PROJECT - After being in lock down for several weeks, IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE wandered the streets of Amsterdam after nightfall in this historic time frame. A starkly different city from the normal bustling metropolis, that seemed, at first glance, to be abandoned. They were struck by the surreal, empty streets and squares, the unnaturally audible sounds of empty trams, the individual movement of a solitary cyclist, or a single human shrouded in shadow, in an eerily quiet yet still softly illuminated city.
The result is a video installation showing impressions of a city and its residents when daily life came to a stop.
IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE are in general fascinated by ordinary people in their natural surroundings. Their style is straightforward, sincere, uncompromising yet subdued' allowing them to capture a non concealing reality.
Object: 4 channel video installation
Duration: 13:24 minutes (loop)
Format: 4x Full HD
Sweco - No day, project, problem or plan is the same. So why should everyone on your team be the same? New Employer Brand Campaign Film.
For Sweco, europe's leading archtecture and engineeering consultancy, we realized a new recruitment campaign film. Important to Sweco is creating a diverse and inclusive society. Being an employer themselves they want to be part of the solution, by creating a working environement where everyone feels welcome and safe.
Production, direction, camera, editing, grading: IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE / Job: Recruitment Campaign Film Client: Sweco / Creative director: Ad de Boer (Sweco) i.s.m. IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE / Spoken word: Justin Samgar de Verteller
HumanAid - Volunteers Recruitment Campaign Film
HumanAid, an exemplery NGO of the 21st century, is building a global team of volunteers for creating humanitarian campaigns in order to raise money to support local organisations in disaster- stricken areas. This to help people in need swiftly. Whenever humanitairian help is needed the network activates talented people from around the globe with relevant experience and know how to create high impact campaigns.
The platform also connects people on a social and educational level. Young designers learn from working with experienced creatives, social media geeks learn from digital nomads. And so on.
Direction, camera, editing, grading: IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE / Job: Volunteers Recruitment Campaign Film Client: HumanAid / Agency: 60 Layers of Cake / Creative director: Rodger Beekman / Production: More than TV
City of Amsterdam - Employer Brand Campaign
We just finished an extensive recruitment campaign for the City of Amsterdam.
The goal was to attract a new influx of young people and inspire them for new jobs at the City. To accomplish that we dove into the richness of the local community. We worked with a small production crew, most of the time just us, so that the lively and delicate ambience wouldn't be disturbed when shooting on location.
Shooting from day to night at every corner of the city and with the cooperation of a lot of friendly people, the result is a poetic commercial showing a vibrant and diverse Amsterdam.
In time to come we will also show 17 'Shorts' about the daily working life of civil servants. The campaign is a tribute to these hard working people who keep the community afloat, inside their offices and in the streets of this beautiful city.
Director, DoP, editing, color grading: IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE / Job: Recruitment Campaign Client: City of Amsterdam / Agency: Link Design / Art direction: Kim Lans, Leonie de Kort / Production: Bianca Stuut, Annelieke Bezemer / Sound design: Renger Koning
Red Dot Design Award - campaign 'Straatintimidatie' for the City of Amsterdam
We did both the photography and film of this important campaign. Very proud!
Link Design: just won the Red Dot Design Award with our campaign ‘Straatintimidatie’ for Gemeente Amsterdam! 'We couldn’t be more proud to receive this prestigious and internationally acclaimed award in the category of Brands & Communication Design. We find it important to raise awareness to subjects that matter. Many people don’t realize the impact words can have. As words are not always words, they can get under your skin.
Client: City of Amsterdam / Agency: Link Design / Art direction: Merijn Nauta / Job: Abri campaign (print and digital)
Photography, film, post production: IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE
Hair and Make Up: Yvonne Nusdorfer
(Angelique Hoorn Management)
Anti Models: Sytze, Cherella, Awisa.
City of Amsterdam - campaign 'Straatintimidatie'
Many people don’t realise the impact that words can have. They can make you feel unsafe and afraid on the street, and can make you adjust you behaviour accordingly. If you have ever been threatened, abused or called at, you know: words are not always just words, they get under your skin.
The City of Amsterdam is fed up with improper street behaviour, and asked Linkdesign to develop an impactful campaign that really addresses the issue. In the images, they 'tattooed' hurtful phrases on the skin of the victims, showing the lasting effect these words have.
The campaign will be deployed as both print and digital abris (source Linkdesign)
Client: City of Amsterdam / Agency: Link Design / Art direction: Merijn Nauta / Job: Abri campaign (print and digital)
Photography, film, post production: IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE
Hair and Make Up: Yvonne Nusdorfer
(Angelique Hoorn Management)
Anti Models: Sytze, Cherella, Awisa.
FINISSAGE: 'Dutch Landscapes - Rotterdam' at "TIME SPACE & ARCHITECTURE". A Cityscape Foundation exhibition.
EXHIBITION TIME SPACE & ARCHITECTURE [SEPTEMBER - OCTOBRE 27, 2017]
With special thanks to owner ‘Bridges’ and facilitator, ‘Peak Development’, Cityscapes Foundation opens the new season with the exposition “Time, Space & Architecture”.
Huidekoperstraat 26-28: A typical modernist office building in a typical 17th Century housing street in the centre of Amsterdam, a building in current transition to become suited to the 21 century. The building, it’s position and it’s state of transition provide several associations with Space, Time and Architecture, the wellknown book by Siegfried Gideon. Where Gideon emphasized the interdependence between architecture with the space and time (in the sense of ‘period’) in which it occurs, the exhibition brings a new take on these intertwined elements, thus its title ‘Time, Space and Architecture’. With more space than ever, the exposition expands over the five floors of the building, exploring Time, Space and architecture and the relations between them. It may take some time to reach the last floor (NB, no elevator available), but we think it will definitely be worth it!
FINISSAGE WITH ARTIST TALK & CONCERT[FRIDAY, OCTOBRE 27, 17.30-21.30]
The exhibition will be concluded with an added work by Anastasija Pandilovska (5th floor), a Talk on the theme of Time, Space & Architecture and a musical act:
TSA TALK: 18.00 - 19.00
Siegfried Gideon pointed out that Architecture has a reciprocally influential relationship with the period in which it occurs. What specifies the architecture of today? How and to which extend is this architecture representative for the age we’re living in? Is todays architecture following artistical and societal currents or predicting them?
Two renowned architects and one artist will reflect on the theme of the exhibition: TIME, SPACE & ARCHITECTURE. Each of them will first give a presentation with regard to their own work in relation to (the theme of) the exhibition. Afterwards input from the public is welcomed to fuell their discussion of related topics.
With:
Kamiel Klaase (NL Architects): representing NL Architects, this years winner of the important international Mies van der Rohe price for their project in the Bijlmer area in Amsterdam Zuid-Oost: the ‘Klussenflat’. The award was all the more remarkable since the project doesn’t involve a spectacular architectonic tour de force. It’s more about an interesting new approach: Rather than replacing the outdated original building with an up to date new design, the original building was enhanced in a specific way. By allowing new inhabitants to design and produce their own appartments, the budget could be mainly used for the public areas of the building.
Jean Bernard Koeman: Internationally oriented artist, curator, teacher and scenographist, who works on drawings, sculptures and monumental installations, mainly for musea and public space, with a focus on language and architecture and a specific fascination with modernism. Koeman contributed to TIME, SPACE & ARCHITECTURE with a small but important diptych of two drawings, from which he’ll start in his reflection on the exhibition’s theme.
Marlies Rohmer: Manifold awarded architect Rohmer’s designs are always consciously related to their context: who and what purpose are they meant to serve? As for many architects, the last decennium durability and transformation have been part and parcel of her projects. Quite uniquely though, Rohmer had the courage to explore how her buildings develop over the years and to which extend they can stand the test of time, resulting in the outstanding book: ‘What happened to my buildings?’.
MUSICAL ACT: 20.00 - 20.30
Concert by:
Mick Ness & Pieter Bannenberg (NL Architects)
Participants: Lard Buurman; Robbie Cornelisse; Esther de graaf; Anneke Heikoop; Hermelinde Hergenhahn, Serene Hui, Izarin & van der Linde; Charlotte Koenen; Jeroen Kramer, NL Architects ; Tilmann Meijer-Faje ; Alexa Meyerman; Daniel Mullen; Paulien Nijenhuis; Semna van Ooy; Anastasia Pandilovska; Sandro Setola; Agniet Snoep; Jean Marc Spaans; Giny Vos, Dickens van der Werff, Peter Zegveld, Edwin Zwakman
Courtesy of Akinci, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Galerie Maurits van der Laar, Galerie Nouvelles Images,
EXHIBITION: Time, Space & Architecture Silent Crowds'- On show in Amsterdam Museum By: Laura van Hasselt, Curator Amsterdam Museum The film 'Silent Crowds' lasts about 13 minutes, but it took more than a year to make it. Not with video cameras but with photo cameras ingeniously attached together by Izarin and Van der Linde. The cameras moved slowly along a five meter high tripod and were controlled by a computer. In this 'making of' Izarin and Van der Linde reveal that process. Fascinating. 'Silent Crowds' - Video Installation celebrating 100 years of Schiphol. Premiere in presence of the King. THE PROJECT - At the end of 2013 'IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE' were asked by the art committee of the Schiphol Group to give a full presentation of a former 4 channel video installation. After the presentation, the committee asked them to create an unique installation to celebrate the upcoming 100th anniversary of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in 2016. IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE are in general fascinated by ordinary people in their natural surroundings. They approach their subjects in a straightforward, sincere and uncompromising manner. Therefore they capture reality in an subdued but non concealing way. For their first 4 channel installation project they decided to look at the world from a different perspective. Not as close as they normally do but rather from a great distance. To accomplish that IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE installed 4 cameras at the highest point possible on a skyscraper located in downtown Rotterdam. One camera for each compass direction. The result was an abstract yet realistic, objective and contemporary view of the city shown on 4 screens. The display brought to mind historic oil paintings on multiple canvases. The installation gave a magnificent 360 degree panoramic view of a different reality due to the compression of time and height at which the film was shot. In their latest project IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE wanted to combine their fascination for close ups of ordinary people with this abstract and distant perspective. In order to make that possible they had to install 4 computer controlled cameras in the control tower of the airport and create a portable location set as well. The first set was installed at the tower for more than a year, capturing all four perspectives in ever changing seasons. The second rig, a specially designed and contructed 5 meter tall tripod also containing 4 cameras, was used to shoot on location. The result, after one and a half years of work, is 'Silent Crowds'. A looping movie on a 4 channel video wall at the heart of Schiphol. The movie starts with a 360 degree majestic panoramic view showing all seasons flowing into one another shot from the control tower. This to be followed by a slowly descending perspective that ultimately will end in portraits of people from different cultural backgrounds around the globe. For realizing all the pre envisioned shots, special components from various parts of the world had to be imported to fabricate specialized equipment needed to complete the task. On the 19th of september, the 100th anniversary of Schiphol, 'Silent Crowds' was revealed in the presence of His Majesty Willem Alexander, King of the Netherrlands. The video installation is further to be seen at the Amsterdam Museum for the following 7 months. This exhibition was opened by the CEO of the Schiphol Group, Jos Nijhuis and the mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol:19th September 2016, Premiere in the presence of King of the Netherlands. 'Dutch Landscapes - Rotterdam' at Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam TIME MACHINE - that's the theme of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR 2013) that takes place from the10th of October till the13th. During this festival everything in the movie theater "LantarenVenster" is about thinking what has been and dreaming about what will be. In this context 'IZARIN and VAN DER LINDE' were asked to show their movie "Dutch Landscapes - Rotterdam' for obvious reasons. Duration: 0:06 (installation / 4 screens / loop) Aldwin Izarin and Hans van der Linde, 2012 Rabobank Real Estate Head Office - Interior lobby TPG post - Ordinary Dutch Permenent exhibition national call center Leeuwarden, 2000. The management of the call center of TPG Post (the Dutch postal service), based in the town of Leeuwarden, approached Izarin-van der Linde, asking them to develop an appropriate concept for a photography project. They were selected for this project - which was under supervision of KPN Art & Design, The Hague - for their highly individual, uncompromising yet subdued style of portraiture. Paulien 't Hoen (former KPN Art and Design). KLM - First class passengers A photographic installation, containing 4 portraits of first class passengers using th "Royal Wing Lounge"
PERIOD: September – October 27, 2017
FINISSAGE: October 27, 2017: 17.30-21.30
LOCATION: Huidekoperstraat 26-28, Amsterdam
ABOUT OUR PROJECT
The trailer gives a glimpse of an ongoing 4 channel video installation showing a fascinating look at the city of Rotterdam from above. The looping movie gives an impression of the city for the period of one year, in which seasons are changing and overflowing to one another. The film has been shot on top of one of the tallest buildings of Rotterdam. The result is an abstract yet realistic, objective and contemporary view of the city shown on 4 screens. The installation gives a magnificent 360 degrees panoramic view, of a different reality due to the compression of time and height at which the film was shot.
Duration: 6 minutes (installation / 4 screens / loop), Format: Digital Full HD
Schiphol sometimes looks like a city. A city where it's always crowded, even at night. Visited in one year by tens of millions of people. Sixty million of them are passengers, but many people also come over just to shop, to work or to say goodbye to their loved ones. Whether it's day or night, summer or winter, life at Schiphol never sleeps.
Aldwin Izarin and Hans van der Linde captured that hustle and bustle beautifully in their movie 'Silent Crowds'. The film is projected on a large wall at the exhibition 100 years of Schiphol Airport. Actually, there are four parallel movies, each shot from a slightly different angle. A year at Schiphol unfolds rapidly on-screen, on all levels from the air traffic control tower to the departure hall at Schiphol Plaza, the busses, etc. As the seasons roll by the airport never stops. Always aircraft, always people.
(translated from Dutch)
Amsterdam Museum: 16 September 2016 / 7 may 2017
Object: 4 channel video installation
Duration: 13 minutes (loop)
Format: 4x Full HD
SILENT CROWDS
Amsterdam Museum:16 September 2016 / 7 may 2017
Object: 4 channel video installation
Duration: 13 minutes (loop)
Format: 4x Full HD
The 4 channel video installation, located in the upper lobby of the movie art house, shows a fascinating look at the city of Rotterdam from above. The looping movie gives an impression of the city for the period of one year, in which seasons are changing and overflowing to one another. The film has been shot on top of one of the tallest buildings of Rotterdam. The result is an abstract yet realistic, objective and contemporary view of the city shown on 4 screens. The installation gives a magnificent 360 degrees panoramic view, of a different reality due to the compression of time and height at which the film was shot.
This first movie is the beginning of "Dutch Landscapes", a new project showing four contrasting aspects of The Netherlands (urban, nature, industry and the shore). The result will be an ongoing video installation.
Location: Architectuur Film Festival Rotterdam (AFFR) / Upper Lobby LantarenVenster
Time: Friday / Sunday / continuously looping viceo installation (11/10/2013 - 13/10/2013)
Format: Digital Full HD
27 C-prints, 137 x 168 cm, on perpex
The photographers focused on the essence of the work done at this particular help desk; the contact with millions of Dutch citizens about mail related matters. They created a series of portraits of ordinary Dutch people, on ordinary locations, ranging from the Rembrandtspark in Amsterdam to the parking lot of a discount supermarket in the town of Tiel.
Izarin-van der Linde reveal their vision of contemporary Holland with twenty-seven life size portraits. As they hang in the callcenter, the photographs, measuring 1,37 X 1,68 meters, serve as windows on the world. They complement the voices from every corner of the country - to which the employees listen on a daily basis - with images.
The photographers Aldwin Izarin (1967) and Hans van der Linde (1964), was asked to depict the theme "Excellent and reliable service for our most highly esteemed passengers' in a series of photographs.
When KLM reached its 80th anniversary in 1999, the Schiphol Group executive searched for an appropriate presentation to celebrate this milestone. Izarin - van der Linde was selected for the two photographers' empathetic approach to their subjects and for their documentary style. This series of portraits for the KLM's Royal Wing Lounge at Schiphol Airport was the result.
The four portraits feature passengers travelling with KLM as Royal Wing members. In keeping with the style of their work, Izarin - van der Linde focused on the patrons of the Royal Wing Lounge. The portraits allude to the great value KLM attaches to the well-being of its passengers, while simultaneously displaying the variety of passengers who fly KLM. In addition to the differences in their physical features, the passengers' choice of attire accentuates the diversity of their cultures.
Aldwin Izarin - Hans van der Linde
Untitled (four portraits), 2000
4 C prints (Lamba Print), 110 x 142 cm, framed
Presented to KLM Royal Dutch Airlines by the Schiphol Group on November 9, 2000, to commemorate the airline's 80th anniversary
