Video installations
'Donker Licht', Corona avonden, Amsterdam mei 2020 - Video Installation about a city in lock down.
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
The making of 'Donker Licht' - A 4 channel video installation about Amsterdam in lock down.
'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.
SILENT CROWDS
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.
Amsterdam Museum:16 September 2016 / 7 may 2017
Object: 4 channel video installation
Duration: 13 minutes (loop)
Format: 4x Full HD
The Making Of 'Silent Crowds' - Video Installation celebrating 100 years of Schiphol
A short black and white doc about preperations, solving problems, fabricating custum made equipment and an insight in the creative process of 2 video artists creating an unique 4 channel video installation. The installation was made to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Schiphol airport. The short doc is without interviews and shows all different stages of the film in short clips, images of the installation and sounds. At the end of the doc the viewer gets a glimps of what the video installation is really about.
Duration: 7.31 minutes
Format: Full HD
Silent Crowds'- On show in Amsterdam Museum
By: Laura van Hasselt, Curator Amsterdam Museum
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.
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. 'Dutch Landscapes - Rotterdam' [video installation]. ABOUT THE PROJECT 'Dutch Landscapes - Rotterdam' at "TIME SPACE & ARCHITECTURE". A Cityscape Foundation exhibition. EXHIBITION TIME SPACE & ARCHITECTURE 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! 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 '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 Photo projects Displaced farmers The world of Aldwin Izarin and Hans van der Linde is characterised by a documentary staged approach where people are central. The photographers are inspired by men in his environment. For the photo assigment of Amsterdam Airport Schiphol with the theme 'the Fifth Runway', they portrayed the native inhabitants of this area. Their documentary is a tribute to the people who make way for the airports fifth runway. The fifth runway cuts through part of the Haarlemmermeer polder and will fundamentally alter life in the polder. 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"
No title Project about children growing up. No title Project about children growing up.
(translated from Dutch)
Amsterdam Museum: 16 September 2016 / 7 may 2017
Object: 4 channel video installation
Duration: 13 minutes (loop)
Format: 4x Full HD
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. It is a registration shown on four screens, giving 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
PERIOD: September – October 27, 2017
OPENING: September 15, 2017: 5.30-8.00
LOCATION: Huidekoperstraat 26-28, Amsterdam
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.
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
Source: Naardenfotofestival
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
Aldwin Izarin is photographing his children at a few selected locations. His sons will be portrayed, in the same style and approach, each year at the 3 preselected places that are important to them. With the co-operations of his sons the project will go on for years. The project is about his children growing up. Work in progress
Hans van der Linde is working on a project about his two daughters. They will be photographed among friends in the process of growing up. He portrayes them, at their weekend campsite, focusing on their different attitude and behaviour being away from the city. Work in progress
