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The Small Museum is proud to present ‘A live concert is like a ‘yodeling’ marble track’ by artist Sjoerd Kooistra, exhibited in the smallest museum of the Netherlands on the facade of Paradiso, from 26 March – 7 May 2021.Do you want to stay informed about future exhibitions in the Small Museum? Subscribe to the Small Museum newsletter: http://eepurl.com/hcuXcT
A LIVE CONCERT IS LIKE A 'YODELING' MARBLE TRACK
Music offers us beauty, comfort and much more. According to the artist Sjoerd Kooistra, a live concert can be the best way to experience these emotions as intensely as possible. The secret weapon to a live concert is mainly the excitement and time beforehand. The anticipation, the waiting and finally the culmination and the emotional release when a concert finally starts. Now that all concert venues such as Paradiso have been closed this past year, we’ve had to wait for this moment of release a long time. However, Kooistra doesn’t think that this necessarily is a bad thing. “Sometimes you have to wait before you are rewarded: a day, a week, a month or even a year. That makes the joy so much greater when the moment finally arrives.”
Based on this sentiment, Kooistra created a sixties inspired wooden musical marble track, a ‘yodeling track’, for the Small Museum. The musical marble track takes us back to Kooistra’s childhood where he remembers the anticipation of watching the marble slowly rolling down the yellow tracks until it finally arrives at the metal xylophone ladder which makes the vintage “tingle-tangle” sound we all recognize from our own childhood. This slow transition from anticipation to ‘live music’ is a metaphor for a live concert and represents the state of the world today; waiting until the concert can finally begin.
To experience this nostalgic 'yodeling' marble track concert, Kooistra invites visitors of the museum to bring their own marble to put into the yodeling marble track to experience the outdoor mini-concert by themselves.
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SJOERD KOOISTRA
Sjoerd Kooistra (1980) graduated in 2004 with a Bachelors degree in graphic design at the Minerva Academie in Groningen. He now works as an art director, graphic designer, illustrator and parttime artist under the name “STUDIO A HEART THAT WORKS” in Friesland, The Netherlands. Admiration, amazement and incomprehension are the drivers that stimulate him to create his art. With a mindset that is simple and to the point, he aims to deliver meaningful art that stimulates the thoughts. The foundation of his work is based on the motto: “simplify everything you do and subsequently perform them perfectly”. Kooistra lives a simple life, with simple goals, living in a quiet village. He values the true human connection and tries to make everything he does meaningful and thoughtful. Sometimes even beautiful.
More information (in Dutch): www.thesmallmuseum.nl
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Paradiso Amsterdam, Weteringschans 6-8, Amsterdam, Netherlands
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