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Machiel Pleijsier |
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| 'Retour Afzender' ('Return to Sender') |
| Installation by 59 students of the Willem de Kooning Academy,
Rotterdam, the Netherlands in the HollandTunnel Galery, New York |
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| opening reception: saturday 11th October
3 to 5 pm |
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opening hours:
saturday 11th and sunday 12th October 1 - 5 pm |
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Over 50 postal items are being sent from Rotterdam, the Netherlands
to the HollandTunnel in NYC. Students at the illustration department of
the Rotterdam based Willem the Kooning Academy make a personal statement,
wish or expectation through a postal item, which they sent to a metropolis
they know only through the eyes of CNN and sitcoms, but now will discover
for real!
During their trip to New York City the students will put together a show
at the HollandTunnel that will combine all these postal items into one big
installation. |
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"Return to Sender" marks the starting point of the
"HollandTunnel Project" that will take place in the Netherlands
from October 2003 until July 2004.
Two replicas of the HollandTunnel garden shed will make the trans-atlantic
cross over from NYC to Rotterdam. There the Rotterdam based artist initiative
MORGEN in collaboration with the Willem de Kooning Academy, will re-examen
defenitions such as "tunnel" and "connection". |
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c/o Paulien Lethen
61 South 3rd Street
Brooklyn, NewYork
11211, USA
t 001 718 384 57 38 |
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| Publicity coördination: Theo Seesing: >t.seesing@hro.nl< |
| Project coördination: Angelique Viester: >angeliqueviester@xs4all.nl< |
| Production coördination: Frans van Lent >mail@fransvanlent.nl< |