While the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is still undergoing a large transformation, the building is open to the public again. The existing building at the Museumplein has been renovated in a sober classical style.
While the floors show the materiality and colour of their materials, almost all other interior elements are rendered white. A cool and unobtrusive museum space is created that leads all attention to the art.
In one of the rooms, a thick wall is placed on the floor. On this wall, a film is showed with a remarkable fairytale-like atmosphere. In the dark of the room, you pause your usual wandering that is so typical to museum visits and keep looking. The film has some very recognizable qualities that remind you of romantic cinema productions, with dramatic film music, slow camera movements showing landscapes and forests. But nothing happens.
In their film 'Mastering Bambi', Artists Persijn Broersen and Margit Lukács created a romantic landscape that is based on the 1942 Walt Disney classic. In a strong but slightly discomforting way, the film draws you deeper and deeper into this strange still world, leaving you wondering what makes it that everything looks so familiar...
Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács, Mastering Bambi, 2010, (video still), HD Video (kleur, geluid), 12' 32", Photo courtesy of: Akinci, Collectie Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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