If These Walls Could Speak

2007

Martijn Sandberg has designed a site-specific artwork for the walls lining the lift shaft at the Amsterdam Public Library’s new location at Oosterdokseiland (OBA, Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam). Sandberg selected a range of titles from every section of the library’s collection; he has compiled a typographic design from them, to be lit and visible through the glass rear wall of the lift.

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Click here for a list of selected titles for the typographic design Lift 1 and Lift 2.

Title: ‘If These Walls Could Speak’
Artist: Martijn Sandberg
Location: Lift 1 and Lift 2, shaft wall, OBA/ Centrale Bibliotheek Amsterdam.
Measurements (lxw): 2x: 34m x 2m.
Material: digital print on pvc, blacklight (lift interior: colour black, glass wall).
Concept and design: 2005.
Definitive design: 2006-2007.
Research and compilation: Martijn Sandberg.
Completion: 7 July 2007.
Commissioned by: Amsterdam Municipality.
Architect: Jo Coenen & Co Architects, Amsterdam/ Maastricht.





Lift 1, entrance. Shaft wall, visible through the lifts' rear wall of glass, 2007. (photo: Peter Cuypers)
Project 'If These Walls Could Speak', OBA/ Centrale Bibliotheek Amsterdam.




Lift 2, entrance. Shaft wall, visible through the lifts' rear wall of glass, 2007. (photo: Peter Cuypers)
Project 'If These Walls Could Speak', OBA/ Centrale Bibliotheek Amsterdam.




Lift 2, 1st floor. Shaft wall, visible through the lifts' rear wall of glass, 2007. (photo: Martijn Sandberg)
Project 'If These Walls Could Speak', OBA/ Centrale Bibliotheek Amsterdam.




'Westkunst', 'Im Westen Nichts Neues', 'Fortschritt Ins Nichts', Nov 2003. (photo: Martijn Sandberg)
Project 'If These Walls Could Speak', OBA/ Centrale Bibliotheek Amsterdam.


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