Smooth sailing

Smooth sailing
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - close up
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - close up
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - close up
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - progress
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - progress
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - progress
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - progress
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing - black and white
Tymon de Laat - Smooth sailing

11 meter x 5 meter.
Spray paint on concrete wall.
Rijstuin, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Project for VVE de Marin.

This wall is part of a 3 murals and 6 pillars painted at the corner of the Mariniersweg and Rijstuin. It tells a story about the transition between the old and new Rotterdam from the harbour related historical perspective.
First of all I would like to thank the VVE de Marin for the opportunity and great care, making me feel right at home with many cups of tea and toasties.
Also a big thanks to the good friend and model Arjo de Ligt, also to Xtra materieel for arranging the impeccable scaffolding tools to work with.

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De Laat started painting murals and canvases, often based on his own photographs of the people he met during his travels. He exaggerates the natural lines in their faces, and fills the spaces that appear between those swirling lines with swaths of vivid color. The linework and color palette he applies in that way, are a means of translating his memories of Latin America to visual imagery. The food, the architecture, the clothes, and particularly his respect for the culture of indigenous peoples; it’s all in there, as de Laat transitions it over to enliven drab Western concrete.

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