Blow Up Installation, The Hague Art, Holland, Architecture Development, Dutch Design Images
Blow Up Installation in The Hague, Holland
4 Oct 2022
Design: Steve Messam
Location: Den Haag, Netherlands

Photos by © Pim Top / Hague & Partners
Blow Up The Hague, Holland
Blow Up Art Den Haag sees five international artists creating temporary inflatable artworks in the streets of The Hague, The Netherlands. Over the next 3 weeks, visitors are invited to follow a walking route around the museum district of the city to discover the pieces in a mixture of prime historical locations and hidden corners.
For the exhibition, leading UK textile artist Steve Messam has created two new large-scale, site-specific works:
Oranje
The Plein.
The work consists of a series of inflatable spikes around the statue of William I in the main square outside the parliament building. A major landmark statue in the city, William I is the founder of the Netherlands as an independent country. The large green spikes temporarily transform the monument and change the energy of the surrounding square in an almost surreal gesture.
Curator Mary Hessing describes it as ??like the crown of the Statue of Liberty has landed on, and embraced, the statue of Willem van Oranje, who is portrayed as a fervent advocate of civil and religious freedom. Steve Messam?s frivolous intervention adds an exiting colourful touch to the honourable statue and the Plein. When the lights come on at night, the dialogue is even more ...