| "Landescapes"
is a joint exhibition by Danish jeweller Gitte Nygaard and Spanish
photographer Patxi Calvo. What binds these artists, besides a personal
friendship, is a slightly tilted view of the world in which the focus
is shifted to what is normally passed by or kept hidden. In the exhibition
they focus on the unwanted landscape. Calvo shows how people invent
and celebrate their own nature in the no man's lands surrounding Amsterdam,
while Nygaard reveals the hidden nature in the trees that are cast
in the process of creating jewellery.
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A cooperation that started as a slow walk. Close to home, under many
of the bridges of Amsterdam. At first we have not eveN noticed it.
The well designed lines. A path. Trunks lined up created for protecting
and nursing animals. A dowry from the municipality to the residents;
to create green corridors. Someone told us! To help autochtonous fauna
to find their way and suddenly, one day in the sunset, they were glooming
with glorious light.
A golden line of giant roots. An ephemeral décor. A dutch landscape.
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