Tag Archives: public space

EVERYBODY SUSPECT

text and image roberto voorbij Quite regularly the discussion revives, usually when the nation’s temper is overheated because of a horrible crime, then the real crime fighters take advantage of the emotional state of the nation to stress the importance … Continue reading

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City of Abstracts

text and image roberto voorbij As part of the Holland Festival is currently in the central hall of the Amsterdam Central Station the projection City of Abstracts by William Forsythe presented. As the description already suggests, in the beautiful designed … Continue reading

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Preview Stedelijk Museum

text and image roberto voorbij After the preview for the press on May 9 was yesterday and today the opportunity for the public to get a first impression of the new Stedelijk Museum. For an empty museum there was a … Continue reading

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FREE ACID

text and image roberto voorbij Artist unknown – street art, Amsterdam. No, to be honest I haven’t tried one, three other persons did apparently. Free drugs, where do you still find that? Or did they mean acid free paper? Nah, … Continue reading

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FREEDOM? PRIVACY?

text roberto voorbij Today, on International Workers’ Day opens the exhibition FREEDOM? PRIVACY? at the Gallery Decumanus, Krk – Croatia. The Art and Culture Laboratory [KUL•] organizes this group exhibition, which is part of Labor Incubator (Prvomajski Inkubator) festival. A … Continue reading

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Brussels street impressions

image roberto voorbij Some images taken last month during a short visit to the always interesting, inspiring, surreal Brussels. Roberto Voorbij – No one knows, what was written here (2012). Roberto Voorbij – Brussels-South Railway Station (2012). Roberto Voorbij – … Continue reading

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RESISTANCE IS FERTILE / RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

text and image roberto voorbij A standard formula in physics is R = P / I ². Or resistance equals power divided by (current times current). That this scientific formula can also be interpreted in a more moralistic way was … Continue reading

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Big drama, small price

text roberto voorbij Beautiful edited pictures by photographer Krijn van Noordwijk. In the center of Amsterdam do these hallucinatory images currently attract attention as a poster campaign for the Last Minute Ticket Shop. With the accompanying slogan ‘Big drama / music / … Continue reading

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Blues before sunrise

text and image roberto voorbij In the Amsterdam Vondelpark can from this week on Steve McQueen’s, by the Stedelijk Museum commissioned, Blues before sunrise be experienced. With a simple but very poetic intervention has the artist / filmmaker McQueen transformed … Continue reading

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GUMBUSTERS

text and image roberto voorbij After Ghost, Ad and MythBusters there are now GumBusters! Spotted at the entrance of gated community in progress, Dutch airport Schiphol. It’s always a bit ambiguous chewing gum patterns on pavements. Meant as freshener of … Continue reading

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