Artwork on walls rail underpass

Artwork

Client

Roland Schimmel

Artist

Roland Schimmel

Technique

Painting and spraying

Material

paint-system of Keim

finishing

Technical advice, project management and realization

Size

22500x1200mm

Location

Velsen, Nederland

On the walls of the rail underpass Haarlem-Beverwijk bus passengers can observe a painting. It is an artwork by Roland Schimmel, realized by Iwaarden. A visual experience that gives the bus ride a moment of wonder. The underpass is transformed into a screen, on which a film of colour areas is played.

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What is the story behind the artwork?

Artist Roland Schimmel compares the walls of the underpass with projection screens: the landscape disappears and he/she enters a virtual world of colour. The walls become a screen on which a film is played. The landscape disappears and the traveller briefly enters an underworld. With his design, the artist creates a physical experience and transforms the walls into a screen on which a ‘film’ is played.

Schimmel considers the underpass as a short-cut. An intersection of space and time, comparable to splitting up a film into frames. At a speed of 50km the bus covers a distance of 13.88m (NB the average length of a city bus) and 57cm (1/24 sec) in a frame time.
Starting point in the design is the horizontal layering of the earth. Two complementary colour band are interrupted by a complementary afterimage. Due to the speed of the bus, the contours become blurry. This creates a disruptive effect, that has a stimulating effect at the same time. The underpass thus becomes a moment of transformation: it offers the possibility of a brief moment of wonder about one’s own perception.

Experience the artwork here!

Our role in the art project

Iwaarden was responsible for the project supervision and realization in this art project in collaboration with Roland Schimmel, Province of North Holland and Keim Nederland. A great opportunity to put our paint technical knowledge, traditional technique and experience with applying murals into practice. From making a sample, digitizing the design, inspecting the walls, technical advice to painting and spraying the design on the walls. Within this project, the challenge was to stay within the available budget and with the technical possibilities to stay as close as possible to the original idea of the artist. All this as sustainably as possible and within the available time.

Barneveld

Headquarter and production
+31 342 404 840 info@iwaarden.nl

Amsterdam

Project office
+31 20 219 9108 amsterdam@iwaarden.nl

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