About this Event
When the weather is good, we will mix and mingle over free wine by Wijnhuis.Amsterdam outside, with a prime view of the Kleine Gallery windows. If there's rain, we will gather just inside the gallery.
Kleine Gallery is pleased to present Time Flies by Bert Teunissen.
Tourism in the Netherlands gained momentum after World War II due to
reconstruction, rising prosperity, and increasing leisure time.
During this period, in 1948, KLM became the first European airline to
put the American Convair 240 into service.
With a fleet of 12 aircraft, they flew various European routes until
1959. They could accommodate 40 passengers, meeting the growing demand
from the burgeoning tourism industry.
Fast forward to the year 2000. An office building called the Convair
Building is being built at Schiphol East.
Photographer Bert Teunissen is asked by KLM to contribute an art piece
to this building. He searches for an original Convair 240 aircraft and
finds one near Los Angeles. To keep the image of the aircraft as
isolated as possible, he chooses to photograph it at night.
This results in several epic photos.
The work was to be placed in the atrium of the Convair Building,
reaching from the first to the fifth floor. However, while the series
was being completed, the art project was cancelled, and the photos
presumably disappeared into a basement.
No one has ever seen the work. Until now.
Opening April 9th, photographs of this vintage aircraft will be on
display at the Kleine Gallery at Vliegtuigstraat 11, in the heart of the
Schinkel district where the National Aerospace Research Institute was
founded.
Curator Jacqui Dolan has created an exhibition together with Bert
Teunissen that transports you back to a time you can hardly imagine
today.
Alongside his previously unseen photos of the Convair, the exhibition
features historical images, technical drawings, scale models, and
colourized video footage of one of its first flights.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Vliegtuigstraat 11, 11 Vliegtuigstraat, Amsterdam, Netherlands
EUR 0.00
