{"id":61266,"date":"2021-11-04T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/ms-rotterdam\/rotterdam-features-world-class-floating-art-gallery-valued-at-over-4-1-million\/"},"modified":"2022-11-11T15:47:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T21:47:12","slug":"rotterdam-features-world-class-floating-art-gallery-valued-at-over-4-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/activities\/rotterdam-features-world-class-floating-art-gallery-valued-at-over-4-1-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotterdam Features World-Class Floating Art Gallery Valued at Over $4.1 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holland America Line ships have long been regarded as floating art galleries for their extensive collections of museum-quality pieces. Rotterdam<\/a> is no exception, and guests are in for a visually rewarding journey with some of the most thought-provoking, striking and bold pieces in the fleet \u2014 including historical works and memorabilia from beloved previous sister ships.<\/p>\n

Rotterdam\u2019s art collection is valued at more than $4.1 million and was curated by Oslo-based YSA Design and London-based ArtLink, who collaborated with acclaimed hospitality design atelier Tihany Design. The result is a museum at sea with 2,645 pieces of diverse works ranging in value from $500 to $620,000 that spans the decks, public rooms and staterooms.<\/p>\n

More than 37 nationalities are represented by Rotterdam\u2019s artists, with the greatest number of contributors coming from the Netherlands, United States and United Kingdom. Artists also hail from Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Republic of Korea, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Many of the pieces focus on entertainment, showcasing themes of music, dance and movement, weaving the ship\u2019s narrative of a \u201cnew sound of cruising\u201d into the art. The works are in many media, including photography, painting, mixed media, illustration, prints and sculpture.<\/p>\n

Holland America Line History Finds a Home on Rotterdam<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Holland America Line\u2019s newest Rotterdam is the seventh ship in the fleet to bear the name, and some previous works of art from Rotterdam VI, which left the company in 2020, have found a new home on the newbuild. Eight historical paintings are now on Rotterdam, including depictions of Rotterdam I, Rotterdam II, Rotterdam III, Rotterdam IV and Rotterdam V. The ship also hosts three previous Rotterdam ship models, and the bell from Rotterdam VI can be found in the Crow\u2019s Nest.<\/p>\n

Fun Facts, Figures and Highlights About Rotterdam\u2019s Art Collection:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Clockwise from left: Harps, a work by Betty Pepper and a Club Orange sculpture.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 The largest and most expensive piece is \u201cHarps,\u201d a 7.5-ton stainless steel sculpture in the Atrium that spans three decks. With dynamic color-changing spot lighting and a mirrored ceiling, the work is a striking focal point on board. \u201cHarps\u201d was produced and designed by ArtLink, based on a concept by Tihany Design. It is valued at $620,000.
\n\u2022 The smallest works are by Betty Pepper, who uses reworked books and adds intricate details and scenes made from old maps. They can be seen in the forward stairwell between decks 7 and 8. The exquisitely small elements are a testament to Pepper\u2019s ability to work at a scale that few artists can master.
\n\u2022 Each of the stairwells has a theme that reaches from top to bottom. The theme of the forward stairs is architecture, midship stairs is music and aft stairs is zoology.
\n\u2022 The oldest artist is Baron Wolman (deceased), born in 1937. The U.S. native was the chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine from 1967 until late 1970. He was ranked among the 20th century’s elite and most collectible photographers.<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from Top left: Federico Picci, Leva Berlande and Magnus Sodamin.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 The youngest artist is Leva Berlande. The 31-year-old rising artist is a student from Latvia and has a painting featured in the Neptune Lounge.
\n\u2022 As with Rudi\u2019s Sel de Mer on Nieuw Statendam, Master Chef Rudi Sodamin\u2019s son and emerging artist Magnus Sodamin created a visually stimulating mural that adorns the wall in his father\u2019s namesake specialty restaurant on Rotterdam. Called \u201cOceans Feast,\u201d the work measures 23 feet long and 3.6 feet tall.
\n\u2022 Italian artist Federico Picci contributes conversation starters that tie in magically with the ship\u2019s design. His photographs capture how music would look if we could not only listen to it but see it, too. In one image, balloons float out of a piano, representing the evanescence of something that evaporates in the air as it is created, like the element of sound.<\/p>\n

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From left: Art by Hans van Bentem, Okuda San Miguel and Yongsun Jang.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022\u00a0One of the most striking and expensive pieces is a dazzling, illuminated crystal \u201cKey\u201d (treble clef) created by Dutch artist Hans van Bentem for Deck 3, midship. The piece is valued at $27,000.
\n\u2022\u00a0Considered among the most avant-garde pieces in the collection is a fiberglass sculpture of an otter in the aft stairwell lobby on Deck 9 by Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel. San Miguel is known for his distinctive style of colorful geometric patterns that portray animals, skulls, religious iconography and human figures.
\n\u2022 Yongsun Jang, from Republic of Korea, welds cross sections of stainless-steel pipes to configure clusters of \u201ccells,\u201d then puts it all together to represent different organic beings. For Rotterdam, he created cello and pan flute sculptures for the B.B. King\u2019s Blues Club\/Lincoln Center Stage space.<\/p>\n

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Clockwise from left: Art by Ani Abakumova, Mehdi Ghadyanloo and Lisa Krannichfield.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2022 In the embarkation area is a work titled \u201cBillie Holiday\u201d by Ani Abakumova. It is made up of 3 miles of threads \u2014 8,000 threads in total. Abakumova\u2019s husband is a mathematician who developed an algorithm that enables her to create images from threads that change color without using paint.
\n\u2022 One of the most valuable works is a mixed media on canvas piece in the forward stairwell lobby on Deck 8 by Mehdi Ghadyanloo, an Iranian artist, painter and muralist known for his gigantic trompe l’oeil\u2013style murals. Ghadyanloo recently had solo exhibitions in Almine Rech\u2019s galleries in Paris and Brussels, and now Holland America Line guests can enjoy his captivating art.
\n\u2022 The vibrant work of Lisa Krannichfield is on display in the Club Orange specialty restaurant. Her pieces meld the border between masculine and feminine and explore what it means to be fashionable and make a statement.<\/p>\n

The art aboard Rotterdam comprises one of the finest collections at sea. Guests can admire the decks inside and out and discover inspired works from a global assembly of emerging artists who share the spaces alongside some of the most renowned talent in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holland America Line ships have long been regarded as floating art galleries for their extensive collections of museum-quality pieces. Rotterdam is no exception, and guests are in for a visually rewarding journey with some of the most thought-provoking, striking and bold pieces in the fleet \u2014 including historical works and memorabilia from beloved previous sister ships. Rotterdam\u2019s art collection is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1876,"featured_media":61267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,39],"tags":[4194],"class_list":["post-61266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activities","category-life-on-board","tag-amenities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67942,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61266\/revisions\/67942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hollandamerica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}