Ik hou van Holland

'I love Holland' is a multimedia installation about the Netherlands in all its cute clumsiness.

Hosted by Madeleine Ward / MadeKunst

This project is now archived and was part of DDW22

Event type

Exhibition

Location

Station

Design Perron

Fuutlaan 12

5613 AB

Een overzichtsfoto van Ik hou van Holland

Madeleine Ward

The exhibition includes a play with puns, stereotypes and dirty comparisons based on the artist's observations and associations. At ‘I love Holland’, recognisable and typically Dutch objects and symbols are inflated and distorted to make a humorous spectacle.

Old-Holland versus the Netherlands

The expressions of Dutch culture are examined in this exhibition and combined in an absurd manner. Think of objects that are typically Dutch, such as an (unnaturally large golden) clog. But also, less typical objects and subjects. Spring is known in the Netherlands as a sweet and innocent season. When the chocolate Easter eggs are for sale again and the calves are just being born, not only love is in the air, but more the scent of recently pollinated flowers and animals having sex. With a tongue in cheek, Madeleine portrays the Netherlands from her eyes.

Een foto van de 'Koema Sutra' en de gehaakte klomp

Madeleine Ward

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Madeleine Ward / MadeKunst
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About Madeleine Ward / MadeKunst

Madeleine Ward is a visual artist with an academic background in illustration. She depicts her subjects on paper with bright colours and harsh contrasting areas of colour. Those subjects can vary widely, think of old Holland, the contrasts between urban and village people, self-portraits. But something that is almost always present in her works is her sassy character and use of humor and satire.

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