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ROELAND OTTEN

Air Quality Measuring Station

ROELAND OTTEN

source: roelandotten
Roeland Otten works with a conceptual approach in different fields of art, design and architecture.

He recently graduated at the master course Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Institute,
where he researched the relations between people, things and spaces to expand his practice
with more theoretical and architectonic experiences.

In 2000, one year after finishing the Design Academy Eindhoven, Otten founded his practice in Rotterdam.
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source: wiredtw
藝術家兼設計師歐登(Roeland Otten)運用新式迷彩技術,逐漸改變荷蘭鹿特丹原本醜陋的建築物,化為眩目的公共裝置。

他並非將軍方正統綠色迷彩布掛滿舊公廁或變電箱,而是運用馬賽克壁磚、攝影等眾多材質,依建築物四周環境,在視覺上形成幻覺,例如在2009年作品「改造屋」裡,歐登拍攝周遭高解析度照片後,印刷在鋁質上,讓四面水泥牆出現如鏡面的質感,用意是為「找回鹿特丹舊城區失去的景色」,取代水泥材質的變電箱,而兩側街道滿是20世紀初房屋,民眾也很滿意這項改造計畫。

至2012年,他的手法開始改變,在「空氣品質測量站」作品裡,歐登仍在重建景觀,不過改用彩色壁磚拼貼而成。

這個系列作品如同自動修正都會錯誤,也很適合鹿特丹等現代工業海港城市,市區多數在二次世界大戰遭夷平,也因此現代天際線充滿實驗性建築,例如Cube Houses或KPN Telecom等,都充滿獨樹一格的特色,以此而言,街頭藝術當然也得與既有建築搭配,突顯潛藏的珍寶、也能讓失落的歷史與當下融合。
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source: dantri
Một nghệ sĩ đã biến những công trình công cộng xuống cấp trở thành những tác phẩm nghệ thuật bằng cách “ngụy trang, che chắn” cho chúng một cách hoàn hảo.
Họa sĩ người Hà Lan Roeland Otten đã khéo léo sử dụng những bức phù điêu đắp nổi, những thiết kế đồ họa không gian để áp dụng vào những bức tranh vẽ quanh khu vực bị quây kín nhằm khỏa lập đi những khối không gian bị che chắn trên phố.

Những công trình bị hỏng, bị xuống cấp tại thành phố Amsterdam như một cột đo mức độ trong lành của không khí, một trạm biến áp, một nhà vệ sinh công cộng… đều được họa sĩ này biến thành công trình nghệ thuật.

Dự án City Camouflage (“Ngụy trang” cho thành phố) đã được triển khai tại Amsterdam từ năm 2009.
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source: wiredcouk
Artist and designer Roeland Otten has gradually been transforming Rotterdam’s overlooked architectural eyesores into mesmerising public installations using novel camouflage techniques.

No, Otten’s not draping army regulation greens over former public toilets and electricity substations. He’s using a variety of materials, from mosaic tiles and photography, to mimic buildings’ surrounds, creating an optical illusion in some cases. For instance, with Transformatie Huisje (Transformation House, 2009), Otten used a high resolution photo of the surrounds printed on aluminium to give a mirror-like quality to a concrete block’s four walls. The purpose? “To bring back the lost view in this historical part of Rotterdam, that was taken by a concrete electricity substation.” Residents of the street, lined with beautiful early 1900 houses, were thankful for the overhaul.

By 2012 his techniques had changed — with Air Quality Measuring Station, Otten was still reinstating the view but a pixelated version of the original, using coloured tiles.

It’s a series that acts as an autocorrect for urban mistakes, and one that’s befitting a modern industrial city port like Rotterdam. Much of the city was flattened during World War II and as a result it has morphed into a modern skyline typified by architectural experiments such as the Cube Houses or the KPN Telecom building, which appears to lean incongruently. It’s seems only right that Rotterdam’s street art works with its existing architecture, highlighting hidden gems and lost views but working with what it has.