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Foam 3h: Thomas Kuijpers - When the Twins were still beautiful
18 December 2015 - 31 January 2016

Press release | Amsterdam, December 2015

Visual artist Thomas Kuijpers turns the space of Foam 3h into a diorama devoted to the Twin Towers. As a modern-day Don Quixote, using an absurd collection of kitsch images and objects, the artist recreates the iconic imagery of New York’s skyline pre-9/11. At first sight, it seems a naïve attempt to reconstruct this romantic image from before the dramatic one that is so strongly engrained in our collective memory that it is nearly impossible to imagine …