NU.nl took a visit to the IJsbeeldenfestival in Zwolle, the netherlands. Here is the story as depicted in the 275,000 pounds of snow and ice-made artwork. Also, the less pleasant sides of history, come to the fore, for example, is a sculpture of a concentration camp. This home is on a golf trip?
the very Small groups of people walking along the high ijsbeelden in the bitterkoude hall, in the city of Zwolle. As the temperature is under 12 degrees celsius, cold enough to make you neusharen to be frozen to death.
From the entrance, walk to the visitors in the prehistoric times, the giant dinosaurs of the ice and snow with their teeth bare. Then in the middle ages, the renaissance, and the modern era, and in the future.
the Image of a hunter and a bear. (Photo: Video of b y).
IJsbeelden of heksenverbranding to the Holocaust < / p> The IJsbeeldenfestival shy away from the dark side of the history. Professionally made images of crystal-clear ice to portray the bubonic plague in the fourteenth century, broke out in Europe, the heksenverbranding, and the beheading of Marie-Antoinette.
One of the largest and the most disturbing image is that of a legless Jewish prisoner in a concentration camp, complete with a streepjespak, and the star of david on the chest.
this is, however, a suitable image for an easy family outing? “It was in the history is not always peace and harmony,” says organizer Eric Broekaart. “This is the theme that you are also the ugly sides to show you.”
The image of the kampgevangene. (Photo: Video of b y).
History to represent the ” black pages
the organization was, therefore, beyond doubt, that the Holocaust is also a place where the festival was supposed to get it. However, the text on the gate, the gate is still gesoebat. There is currently no ‘Arbeit macht frei’, but rather ‘in order that we will not be forgotten. “In this way, the image will not go to a specific camp, but rather to gevangenenkampen all over the world,” explains Broekaart to.
The idea of the camp is a life-size statue of Anne Frank, from behind her desk, writing in her journal. “Great,” says an elderly visitor in a mobility scooter to get around. “You can put it in an exhibition about the history of the future for this show,” he says. “I still have a few more to want to see it, but it’s darn cold here.”
“Maybe there’s a warning posted for all to this image.”
a Visitor to the IJsbeeldenfestival
the woman, who is the festival with her two children to visit are in doubt. “We are here just to have a nice dinner and a show. For those with a family history in the war, and, perhaps, painful at this picture, suddenly,” she says. “Maybe they’re a warning to be able to place right in front of you to get here.”
Shortly after the ijsbeelden to the events of the war point goes to the route of read images. We will see the liberation and the fall of the Berlin Wall and the famous broederkus), and the advent of punk, is the latest in a railway-train, and the arrival of the first humans on Mars.
“There are two to four weeks forty-ijscarvers with the blood, sweat, and tears, have been working to make these images” said Broekaart. “I’m hoping that this is a very real ijskunst to enjoy and be excited by it.”
The IJsbeeldenfestival in the city of Zwolle in the IJsselhallen exhibition centre, until march 1, for a visit. Tickets cost 17,50 euro per person at the box office, and 14, 50 € online.