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Tracy Metz, Maartje van den Heuvel
Sweet&Salt
Water and the Dutch
Design: Opera Graphic Design, Illustrated (colour), Paperback, 296 pages, size: 23 x 28 cm
English edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-848-2, € 35.00
Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-847-5
 The Netherlands and water: a story of conflict and concord, calamity and prosperity. For centuries the Dutch have been masters at controlling the water. They have wrested land from the water and turned Dutch waterworks into a global export product. The knowledge and technology with which the ‘Low Lands’ deal with water are an inspiration to many countries. Climate change is increasing the threat of both flooding and drought, and the consequences of a potential disaster are incalculable. It is no accident that dealing with water is one of the greatest global challenges of the twenty-first century. In the project Sweet&Salt (book and exhibition) author and journalist Tracy Metz and curator Maartje van den Heuvel demonstrate, in text and images, how the Netherlands shapes its evolving relationship with water.
In Sweet&Salt: Water and the Dutch, American-born journalist and author Tracy Metz describes the metamorphosis the landscape of the Netherlands is currently undergoing and how the Dutch are searching for new ways of living with the water. She also reports on various places around the world, such as New Orleans, Hamburg, Vietnam, New York and China, that are working with the Dutch on a new approach to the water landscape. As the most iconic element of the Netherlands, water has been represented in countless images over the centuries. In this publication, art historian Maartje van den Heuvel reveals, in more than 125 works of art, the rich diversity of meanings the Dutch have attached to water and their waterways. These works of art represent the Netherlands’ history with water in an evocative way and can serve to inspire the shaping of a changing world.
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Afsluitdijk, 2010 photo by Siebe Swart
H.C. Vroom, The Departure of the East Indiamen, ca. 1630
left: Daniëlle Kwaaitaal, Whispering Waters, 2009
center: Emmy Andriesse, Camperduin, 1950-1952
right: Ed van Wijk, Evacuation Flood, 1953
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Schedule Sweet&Salt::
| Tuesday 7 February 19.00 |
Kunststof Radio |
Tracy Metz in conversation with Jellie Brouwer |
| Saturday 11 February 08.00-09.00 |
Radio Rijnmond |
Tracy Metz in conversation with Chris Vemer |
| Sunday 12 February 07.00 |
Vroege Vogels Radio |
Tracy Metz |
| Monday 13 February 15.30-18.30 |
Kunsthal Rotterdam |
Exclusive opening and book presentation |
| Tuesday 14 February vanaf 10.00 |
Kunsthal Rotterdam |
Exhibition open for general audience |
| Wednesday 15 February |
AVRO |
Art competition on website |
| Sunday 19 February 19.00 |
Kunststof TV |
Tracy Metz in broadcast |
| Saturday 25 February 15.00 |
Selexyz Donner R'dam |
Lecture Tracy Metz |
| Sunday 26 February 11.00 |
Kamera Kultura Nutshuis |
Tracy Metz in conversation with Jellie Brouwer |
| Sunday 4 March 14.30 |
Selexyz Verwijs Den Haag |
Lecture Tracy Metz |
| Tuesday 6 March 20.00 |
bookstore Athenaeum A'dam |
Lecture Tracy Metz |
| Tuesday 13 March 19.30 |
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen |
Lecture Tracy Metz |
| Wednesday 14 March 19.30 |
University Campus Friesland |
Lecture Tracy Metz |
| Saturday 24 March 15.00 |
Singer museum Laren |
NRC Lecture |
| Monday 26 March |
Kunsthal Rotterdam |
Public symposium |
| Sunday 15 April 14.30 |
Selexyz Dominicanen Maastricht |
Lecture Tracy Metz |
| Monday 23 April |
Kunsthal Rotterdam |
Expert symposium |
| Friday 27 April 17.00-20.00 |
Kunsthal Rotterdam |
Art&Drinks after Work Maartje van den Heuvel |
| Sunday 10 June 11.00-17.00 |
Kunsthal Rotterdam |
Last day exhibition |
In association with Kunsthal Rotterdam and Leiden University
With the support of the province of Zuid-Holland, Evides Waterbedrijf, Vitens, Fund for Special Journalistic Projects, The Netherlands Architecture Fund, DeltaPORT Donation Fund, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Delft University of Technology, Hoogheemraadschap De Stichtse Rijnlanden, DHV Consultancy and Engineering, WWF, Knowledge for Climate, Rebel, Rijkswaterstaat, Association of Regional Water Authorities, City of Dordrecht, NWB Bank, province of Gelderland and Royal Haskoning.
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About the authors
Tracy Metz
Tracy Metz, of American origin, is a journalist and author on art, architecture, urban planning and the landscape. She is an art editor with NRC Handelsblad newspaper and an international correspondent for the American magazine Architectural Record. In 2006-2007 she was awarded the mid-career Loeb Fellowship at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Subsequently she published a selection of her columns and essays on American planning and use of space, On The Ground: Observations from Harvard. She also initiated a two-year collaboration between Harvard and the Dutch government on water and the climate. She is a visiting fellow at Harvard. In 2007-2008 she was a member of the Delta Commission, appointed by the Dutch cabinet to advise the government on long-term water safety. Prior to this she was a visiting researcher at the Netherlands Institute for Spatial Research and a member of the Rural Area Council, the independent advisory board of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality. Metz is the author of a number of books, including Fun! Leisure and Landscape, on the impact of the leisure industry on our environment (2002). In 2008 she published, with Maartje van den Heuvel, Nature as Artifice, on contemporary landscape photography, and in 2010 Huis in Frankrijk. Nederlanders en hun maison de campagne (House in France: The Dutch and their Holiday Homes).
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Maartje van den Heuvel
Maartje van den Heuvel an art historian and curator of photography at the Special Collections of Leiden University and also serves as a guest curator for various museums. She has curated such exhibitions as ‘Documentary Now! Contemporary Strategies in Photography, Film and the Visual Arts’ (Rotterdam, 2005) and ‘Photography! A Special Collection at Leiden University’ (The Hague Museum of Photography, 2010). In 2008 she produced ‘Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in Photography and Video Art’ for the Kröller-Müller Museum. This exhibition was held at Aperture Gallery in New
York as well as at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich as a counterpart to ‘Der weite Blick’, an exhibition by the Rijksmuseum on nineteenthcentury Dutch landscape painting, and in 2009 by the George Eastman House in Rochester (NY) as a counterpart to ‘New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape’. In 2011 she was curator for the commission ‘Leidens Beleg en Ontzet (1574)’ awarded to photographer Erwin Olaf by Leiden University and Museum De Lakenhal.
Books published with NAi Publishers:
> Fun
> Nature as Artifice
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