Etalage Stroom Den Haag, april 2014 foto: courtesy Stroom Den Haag
Window presentation: 'Scaffold' and 'Mandela Monument'
Location: shop window Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Open: visible from the street day and night
Part of See You in The Hague, a multifaceted narrative about the ambition and reality of The Hague as International City of Peace and Justice.
Stroom The Hague was involved in the realization of two sharply contrasting monuments facing each other on President Kennedylaan in The Hague's International Zone.
Scaffold by Sam Durant
Scaffold by American artist Sam Durant is an assemblage of five historic wooden scaffolds from American history, starting with abolitionist John Brown from 1859 to Saddam Hussein in 2006. The work will be used as part of Stroom The Hague's long-running program See You in The Hague as a platform for public debate on capital punishment, democracy, national justice and international criminal law. A public program will next make Scaffold a platform for discussion and reflection.
The large presence of law and security institutions in The Hague prompted Sam Durant and Stroom to build Scaffold in The Hague on President Kennedylaan in the city's International Zone.
The photo in the window was taken by: Ed Jansen
Mandela Monument byArie Schippers
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
- Nelson Mandela
The Mandela Monument Long Walk to Freedom by Dutch artist Arie Schippers stands on the President Kennedylaan in The Hague near Omniversum.
On Sept. 25, 2012, Bishop Desmond Tutu unveiled the 3.5-meter-tall statue. Stroom The Hague guided the selection of the artist and the assignment process up to the sketch phase. For the municipality of The Hague, Stroom is naturally the first party to ask for advice on art in public spaces.
The picture in the window was made by: Gerrit Schreurs
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see-you-in-the-hague
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etalage-presentatie