Power To The People

Martijn Sandberg created a typographic figuration on aluminum panels attached to the walls of the transformer station at the Hoofddorpplein, Amsterdam.
In the dark and caused by street lighting or the headlights of passing cars, the yellow colored letters light up very brightly. After darkness falls, the work has a relationship with artificial light in its immediate surroundings and actually feeds on passers-by who make the text visible: ‘Power To The People’.

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Title: ‘Power To The People’
Artist: Martijn Sandberg
Location: Hoofddorpplein, Amsterdam
Material: reflective material on aluminium
Size: (lxwxh) 400cm x 400cm x 342cm
Completion: 2000
Commissioned by: Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
in collaboration with Stadsdeel Oud Zuid
Companies involved: Nuon, Amsterdam

Photos by: Luuk Kramer (1), Frank Kok (2,3)