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| "DEMOLITION MAN" Installation |
| by Arno Coenen |
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Arno Coenen will install a spectacular digital collage print
installation at the Metro and Railway station Bijlmer in Amsterdam
South East. |
In Moscow Coenen has become inspired by the heroic wall paintings,
mosaics and lavish decorations in the Moscow subway stations. It has
inspired him to develop an up-date of the heroism of the former
Soviet Union for contemporary Russia. The iconographic update of the
heroes of the new Russians has brought him on a tour to St.
Petersburg with one of Holland's most renown free-fighters, who
challenged Russian free fighters on their native soil. The images of
the free-fight spectacle in St. Petersburg, the fighters as heroes,
the audience, the organisers, their exuberant following have been
extensively documented by Coenen on video and in photography. With
this material he intends to develop a iconographic cycle of digitally
processed and reworked images depicting the 'Heroes of the new
Russians' in a series of lightboxes and video-animations. Ideally
this iconographic cycle is to be shown as the decoration of a metro
station in Moscow and Amsterdam South East (the home base of the
Dutch fighter Coenen followed to St. Petersburg) |
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