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group exhibition
"work in progress: the vision", 2008 acf, amsterdam centrum voor fotografie Work in Progress is a series of exhibitions that the ACF has created about the creative process. It is a discussion between photographers, but this time it is not around a table, but on the walls. In this last exhibition The Vision, 9 photographers show, with their recent work, the divergent angles in the making of a portrait. ACF has chosen a broad cross-section of photographers in their approaches, and also from the generations to which they belong. The result is an exhibition that display the diverse approaches in the visions of portrait photography.
The photographers in this exhibition are:
Reinier Gerritsen
Ringel Goslinga
Cuny Janssen
Judith Jockel
Annaleen Louwes
Bertien van Manen
Jocelyne Moreau
Rob van der Nol
Mirjana Vrbaski
Rob van der Nol presents the installation Pestalozzi. This installation visualises the moment of transition in the child's first school-day, between dreamworlds and society's rules and realities.
Pestalozzi is part of his project Erste Schulgang (First Schoolday) that is made possible by a grant from the BKVB. The title Pestalozzi is dedicated to Pestalozzi-Fröbelhaus, a school in Berlin for children with learning disabilities, which has helped him in the realisation of the project.
This installation is a part of my project "First School Day" in 2008, which also consisted of a "Zuckertütenfest" for 2000 children, the book "Erster SchulGang: eine Metamorphose", a photo exhibition in Berlin, and the website www.zuckertuetenfest.com.
In the installation "Pestalotzzi" images from two worlds are placed together: the dream world of our childhood, and a moment of transition for discovery and acceptance of society's rules and regulations, in the process of forming the child's own identity. It depicts the tension between freedom and rules, between the self and other, in the metamorphosis to unity, in which much is gained but also mush is lost.
This project is based on a tradition that started in Thüringen (Germany), call the "Zuckertüte", and presently called "Schultüte". It is known that in 1817, a father gave to his child on his first schoolday a present of a paper cone, filled with cookies and candy (Zuckertüte). This was to soothe and sweeten his child's transition from toddler to schoolchild. Over the years this has changed into a cardboard horn filled with school supplies, toys, and healthy candy (Schultüte), and has become a party that are celebrated in most homes and schools in Germany.
The title "Pestalozzi" is dedicated to the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus, a Berlin school for maladjusted young people. The school has helped me a lot in creating of this project.
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