Jeff Wall’s installation ‘Children' (1988) was originally intended for the walls of a children’s pavilion in Rotterdam. The photographs mounted in light boxes were arranged so that the children appear to communicate with each other. The photographs of children from different ethnic backgrounds represented the ideal of a multicultural society, which existed in the Netherlands in the 1980s and 1990s. The ‘Children’s Pavilion’ was conceived in 1988 by the artists Jeff Wall and Dan Graham, at the initiative of Stichting Air and in partnership with the Rotterdamse Kunststichting (RKS) and Witte de With - Center for Contemporary Art. The Pantheon-like building, with a sunken pool, was intended for the Ommoord neighbourhood in Rotterdam but was never realised.
Specifications
| Title | photograph |
|---|---|
| Material and technique | Cibachrome paper, aluminium, tubular light |
| Object type |
Photograph
> Two-dimensional object
> Art object
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| Location | This object is in storage |
| Dimensions |
Diameter 74,5 cm Thickness 18 cm |
|---|---|
| Artists |
Artist:
Jeff Wall
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| Accession number | BRL 2007-29 a-i (MK) |
| Credits | Loan Han Nefkens H+F Collection, 2007 |
| Department | Modern Art |
| Acquisition date | 2007 |
| Creation date | in 1988 |
| Collector | Collector / Han Nefkens |
| Internal exhibitions |
Jeff Wall - Children (2012) Inrichting Atrium - Wanden (2021) |
| Material | |
| Object |
