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Exposition at Rembrandt Square, Amsterdam. 2006.
Cast bronze. 15x5x7m. |
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The Biggest Sculpture in the Netherlands:
NIGHTWATCH 3D
Nightwatch 3D was created 400 years after
the world famous artist, Rembrandt, was born in Leiden. It
was transported from Moscow to Holland to be part of the celebrations
around the Rembrandt year 2006. An ambitious project in bronze,
which will bring to life 22 characters from Rembrandt’s painting.
This masterpiece was completed by the artist in 1642.
The transformation of this two dimentional
image into a three dimensional one will add a new reality
to the Nightwatch and for the first time make visible the
other side of the figures depicted in the most famous of Dutch
paintings. This project was conceived and realized by two
friends; Mikhail Dronov, of Moscow, and Alexander Taratynov,
now living in Maastricht.
The idea of the project is that people will
be able to view representations of historical characters living
in Amsterdam in those old times. You will also be able to
touch them and even walk among the figures from this world-famous
masterpiece, a truly educational experience. This is a fully
«sculptured» painting showing in more than full-length all
twenty-two figures of the painting, even those figures that
are not entirely visible on the canvas. It will certainly
make make an indelible impression on the spectator.
Pending the agreements for its final location
all the figures from the group (eighteen of the characters
have arrived since spring 2005) are going to stay in the gardens
of Chateau St. Gerlach nearby Maastricht. The whole sculpture
with its separate figures is very striking also from the point
of view of size. Its dimensions are 15 meter long, 7 meter
in depth and 5 meter at its highest point.
Article from «NIVEAU» magazine.
VOORJAAR 2004. Netherlands
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Present-day artists
typically entertain an anxious, critical approach towards
the world. And in times of crisis they frequently revert
to classical art in their quest for a foothold and a
dialogue with great Old Masters. Classical art might
occasionally appear to be a thing of the past, while
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Who would expect
the famous fusiliers from the squadron commanded by
Captain Frans Banning Cocq, as portrayed in 1642 by
Rembrandt, to leave the canvas and to become a three
dimensional bronze sculpture? But this time, not in
the seventeenth century but in the twenty first century
Holland..... |
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William Mailand
September 2004, Moscow |
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The musketeers
are coming back! |
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front of the Chateau / hotel where in 1992 many heads
of state stayed during the European Conference when
the Treaty of Maastricht, Netherlands was concluded,
now stands a group of musketeers with all their splendid
regalia! This is not a masquerade or film. This is a
prestigious group of cast bronze heroes from the Famous
painting Nightwatch (1642) by Rembrandt..... |
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Sergey Orlov |
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We
are facing semblant, deceitful evidence. On the face
of it, this work is an incarnation of a concept beyond
the plot, realization of a purely technical task: reproduction
of a bidirectional scene in three dimensions..... |
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Gerard Desson
Moscow, 26 February 2003 |
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