Anita Mikas & Markus Liehr, Express Delivery Syndrome; The Balcony, The Hague

In The Balcony’s shop window Anita Mikas and Markus Liehr show Express Delivery Syndrome.

Mikas’ and Liehr’s works show the estrangement Far Eastern mass production brings to us Westerners.

Of course exotic mass production has been a fascination with Westerners ever since the first big international  trade fairs in the 19^th century, but Mikas and Liehr add new refinement to it, making it more attractive than it could ever have been in real.

These 19^th century trade fairs in mind, one could even think of the end of an era, with air traffic having come to a virtual standstill these days.

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Contents of all photographs courtesy to the artists and The Balcony, Den Haag.

Bertus Pieters

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Façades of The Hague #107

In 1902 the border between the municipalities of The Hague and Loosduinen (now part of The Hague) was moved to the southwest because of the explosive growth of the population of The Hague. From 1903 onward houses were built between Beeklaan and Valkenboskade for civil servants and better paid labourers.

This block of houses, at Valkenboskade, was built before World War I, when, since 1875, the number of inhabitants of the city had tripled in size. The block has a strong rhythm of bay windows, of which some have changed a bit through the decades.

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All pictures were taken in March 2017.

Bertus Pieters

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