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Remembered Always... What is the colour of monuments in The Hague?
Do statues and monuments always speak the truth? Or do they show only one view of history? And who decides what colour this view has? An exhibition about monuments in The Hague, who commissioned them and the role of (contemporary) artists. The exhibition in Atrium City Hall presents a selection of famous (and not so famous) monuments in The Hague. Or better said, the models of these monuments. Arend Groosman designed two pavilions for their display.
The reason to organize this exhibition lies in two new monuments, one for Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and one for Thorbecke (the Dutch politician who drafted the revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands in 1848). The designs for the Thorbecke Monument, by the artist Thom Puckey, and the Juliana Monument by Ingrid Mol, will be shown to the general public for the very first time.
Also on view: Tank Man by the Spanish Fernando S谩nchez Castillo. This work alludes to the events at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989, when a young man stood in front of a tank and forced it to stop. The artist turned this revolutionary moment in history into a monument that has a number of diiferent forms: a field of 5000 jade green, miniature men, a life-size sculpture made of marmble and the Tank Man Prize.
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Do statues and monuments always speak the truth? Or do they show only one view of history? And who decides what colour this view has? An exhibition about monuments in The Hague, who commissioned them and the role of (contemporary) artists. The exhibition in Atrium City Hall presents a selection of famous (and not so famous) monuments in The Hague. Or better said, the models of these monuments. Arend Groosman designed two pavilions for their display.
The reason to organize this exhibition lies in two new monuments, one for Queen Juliana of The Netherlands and one for Thorbecke (the Dutch politician who drafted the revision of the Constitution of the Netherlands in 1848). The designs for the Thorbecke Monument, by the artist Thom Puckey, and the Juliana Monument by Ingrid Mol, will be shown to the general public for the very first time.
Also on view: Tank Man by the Spanish Fernando S谩nchez Castillo. This work alludes to the events at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989, when a young man stood in front of a tank and forced it to stop. The artist turned this revolutionary moment in history into a monument that has a number of diiferent forms: a field of 5000 jade green, miniature men, a life-size sculpture made of marmble and the Tank Man Prize.
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