Marcel Wanders and Studio Job create inflatable installations for BlowUp Art The Hague
Silver eggs and a giant floating pot are among the inflatables installed outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague as part of this year's BlowUp Art The Hague festival.
For the third edition of the annual event, which runs until 2 June, curator Mary Hessing of WOTH Studio asked the studios of four Dutch designers ? Marcel Wanders, Job Smeets, Mieke Meijer and Sigrid Calon ? to create temporary inflatable artworks.
Temporary inflatable artworks have been installed on the Hofvijver lake
The sculptures are set on a pontoon in the Hofvijver lake, which is lined with important buildings including the Mauritshuis art museum and the Binnenhof buildings housing the Dutch government.
Previous editions of BlowUp Art The Hague have invited audiences to conduct a self-guided walking tour to take in sculptures installed at significant sites around the city. The showcase includes inflatable 'trees' by Studio Mieke Meijer
This year's floating sculpture garden aims to highlight the importance of green spaces in cities and was created in collaboration with students from the Urban Green Development programme at Yuverta college in the Dutch city of 's-Hertogenbosch.
The first artwork visitors encounter upon reaching the pontoon is Studio Mieke Meijer's playful take on an arboretum ? aptly titled Airboretum.
Egg-shaped inflatables by Marcel Wanders feature in the garden and on the lake
The studio created a series of 'trees' with trunks that split into smaller branches and twigs. Two of the tre...
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