'Artworks metro stations', early documents, Amsterdam, 5 August 2011

As a follow-up to the 'Demolition Ball and Battle of Waterloo' text in English and Dutch in my June blog, here is a collection of early documents related to the artworks created for the Amsterdam metro stations in the Seventies and early Eighties.
This historic material, photographed in July 2011, comes from the archives of Louis van Gasteren.





‘Van Metro tot Beeldbuis’, leaflet, 1975
Archive: Louis van Gasteren


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'Slopersbal en Slag bij Waterloo' (NL), Amsterdam, 29 juni 2011

Bij de vernieuwing van de Oostlijn van de metro in Amsterdam dreigen in meerdere stations de karakteristieke kunstwerken, vervaardigd in de jaren zeventig en begin jaren tachtig, te verdwijnen.
Het betreft o.a. het Gesamtkunstwerk van Jan Sierhuis, Louis van Gasteren, Tine Hofman e.a. in metrostation Nieuwmarkt, de typografie 'Waterloo' van Willem Sandberg in station Waterlooplein en de letters van Opland bij halte Wibautstraat. Het kunstwerk van Siet Zuyderland in metrostation CS is helaas onlangs verwijderd.

Het is van cultureel belang te ageren en direct actie te ondernemen om de nog bestaande kunstwerken in de metrostations te behouden en te behoeden voor de slag van de slopersbal.

Tekst: 'Slopersbal en Slag bij Waterloo'





Slopersbal, kunstwerk Jan Sierhuis, 1980
Metrostation Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam


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'Demolition Ball and Battle of Waterloo' (ENG), Amsterdam, 29 June 2011

There is a danger that distinctive works of art created in the Seventies and early Eighties will vanish from several stations, as part of the Amsterdam Metro East Line renovation.
They include the Gesamt artwork by Jan Sierhuis, Louis van Gasteren, Tine Hofman and others in the Nieuwmarkt metro station, the typography 'Waterloo' by Willem Sandberg at Waterlooplein station, and the letters by Opland at Wibautstraat station.
Regrettably, the artwork by Siet Zuyderland in CS station was recently removed.

It is of real cultural importance to mount a campaign and take direct action to retain the works of art still existing in the metro stations, and to protect them from the strokes of the demolition ball.

Text: 'Demolition Ball and Battle of Waterloo'





Demolition ball, artwork by Jan Sierhuis, 1980
Metro station Nieuwmarkt, Amsterdam


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