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VIDEO a land art project "Pieter Janszoon Saenredam" in Barendrecht, Holland
Island and reservoir in the center of Holland. It was completed in 1985. Every three years the willows are pollarded. Every twelve-and-a-half years the trunks are whitewashed. The practice of pollarding started in the Middle Ages in Europe in order to produce kindling for fire places and fodder for livestock.
The red floating constructions are by the Argentinian sculptor Oscar Abraham Pabón.
"What is the Saenredam Project?
Land art, landscape art, is not the view of the landscape,
such as painting or photography, but the intervention in the landscape,
which is handled in a specific way with the tension between culture
and nature. In Saenredam Project, designed in 1985 by Lucien den
Arend, it does so in a unique way: natural materials (trees, earth,
water) are maintained in a cultural straitjacket pressed and get
a different, alienated meaning.
The artwork continues to
show a different picture, in the course of a day by light, sun or
wind and the rhythm of the seasons: bald or with a luxuriant foliage,
snow or ice. Every three years shrink by pollarding and then grows
again sharply. Very striking are the steadily thickening strains
after a whitewashing which occurs eight times a century. The Saenredam
Island, is a rectangular bun willow as a vaulted roof with white
columns. That straitjacket (the clean shores, the square grid trees,
the whitewashing) has a relationship with the Dutch white church
interiors from the 17th century, such as those painted by Pieter
Janszoon Saenredam."
By: Jordi Menheer (Source: Stichting
Pieter Jansz Saenredam)
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