Art Stations of the Cross

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Today was the final day of Art Stations of the Cross 2019 in Amsterdam. We thank everyone for their enthusiasm and interest in the project! It was great to meet you on the stations trail and to walk the path together.

(photo: Maarten Nauw)

On this last day of Art Stations, the final Visual Meditation is posted online: about Giorgio Andreotta Calo's "Anastasis" in the Oude Kerk, representing Stations 14 (Entombment) and 15 (Resurrection). artstations.org/engage/refle…

(Sundays: Service at 11:00, Vespers at 18:00). Free entrance for Art Stations pilgrims: show your route folder with stamp card. #artstations2019 #amsterdam artstations.org/art

In the work "Αναστάσης" the artist relates to the visibility of the absent sculptures. Art: Giorgio Andreotta Calò, Anastasis (2018). Photo: Maarten Nauw. Location: Oude Kerk, Oudekerksplein 23. Open: Mon-Sat 10:00-18:00; Sun 13:00-17:30

In the sixteenth century a group of sculptures stood there that depicted the deposition and the mourning of Christ. This sculpture group was destroyed during the iconoclastic fury in 1566. Now there is emptiness and the canopy conveys the absence of the image.

The Holy Sepulchre Chapel was built in 1515 after the example of the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem. A canopy is visible in the space, under which you would expect to see something.

During the Holy Week, we've virtually walked the Art Stations trail in Amsterdam together. On the eve before Easter Sunday, we have arrived at the final station (+ 1) with this post. Station 14: Entombment + Station 15: Resurrection.

Art: Jan Tregot, The last days (2016-2017). With Erik van de Beek. Photo: Anton Houtappels. Location: Museum Ons’Lieve Heer op Solder, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 38. Open: Mo-Sat 10:00-18:00; Sun 13:00-18:00. #artstations2019 #amsterdam artstations.org/art

contemporary acts of terror. It is displayed in the Museum Ons’ Lieve Heer op Solder alongside a Pietà from the museum’s own collection. The combination of the two sculptures expresses the pain and suffering in two opposite, yet complementary ways.

During the Holy Week, we'll virtually walk the Art Stations trail in Amsterdam together. Station 13: Jesus is taken down from the cross. One of the most violent depositions ever made, Jan Tregot’s The Last Days reuses an old corpus of Christ in a manner that references (..)

Art: Anjet van Linge, Ontferming (2018). Photo: Martin Waalboer. Location: Allemanskapel Sint Joris, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 100-102. Open: daily, sunrise to sunset. #artstations2019 #amsterdam artstations.org/art

Extra: Behind the windows of the chapel, two watercolors by Paul van Dongen show the emotions on the face of the crucified Christ.

In the medieval church of Eenrum in the northern Netherlands, artist Anjet van Linge chiseled it into stone in the place where the altar had once been. She worked in silence and alone, in the exact spot where pastors and priests have asked for the Lord’s mercy for centuries.

During the Holy Week, we'll virtually walk the Art Stations trail in Amsterdam together. Station 12: Jesus dies on the cross. Kyrie eleison – “Lord, have mercy” – is a prayer that has been a part of the Christian tradition for two thousand years.

We are crucifying the earth. Art: Erica Grimm, Sheinagh Anderson & Tracie Stewart. Salt Water Skin Boats (2018). (photo: Sharon Huget). Locatie: De Waalse Kerk, Walenpleintje 159. Open: Thu-Sat 10:00-15:00. #artstations2019 #amsterdam artstations.org/art

The ambient soundscape, accessible by QR code and cell phone technology, functions as a living, breathing, sounding entity—the life of the ocean brought into the listener’s awareness. In the last two hundred years, human actions have changed the chemistry of the ocean.

The monk of history would cast himself into the ocean at the mercy of the elements to bring vision and light (Salvation) to wherever and whomever God (Divinity, Holy Spirit) so designed. The coracle had no rudder or anchor. Setting sail was an act of faith, of trust.

Salt Water Skin Boats proposes an analogy between our bodies and the vast ecology of the global ocean: between the life-sustaining, precariously balanced ocean chemistry and the chemistry of our own salt-water-filled bodies.