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Witte de With report 

TripWitte de with lies in the near the Centrum of Rotterdam. We went to the Witte dewith by metro. We gathered in the morning at the metro station in H oogvliet, thenwe travelled a solid half our to get to our destination. (Witte de withstraat 50).Witte de with is a centre for Contemporary Art that was started in 1990; themission of this was to show people what contemporary Art is and the theory behind it.

Nervous but exited When we arrived at the centre two female tour guides introduced them self but sadly I couldn¶t remember their names, neither does any of my classmates. After that they took us to the third floor were we could drop our jackets and bags.When we climbed the stairs there was an interesting thing on the wall. It was a

blank wall with a autographs and drawings in a circle. I thought that was very cool and I wanted to write my name on. When we finally got on the third floor we got split up in two separate groups. One group had the tour on the third floor and theother group had the tour on the fourth floor. And after that we would switch floors.I was in the group that was on the third floor with mister Charif. The tour guidesaid we could look around and think abo ut the things you see. Some of the thingsI saw were.

Creepy This is a kind of dog/animal. It wasmade of textile I think and it just lookslike a giant stuffed animal. I think it looks a bit odd and sad because it doesn¶t have any eyes, Kind of creepy! 

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Creepier Next to the dog like thing therewas this. These are again 3giant stuffed animals. I thought this one was even creepier 

because all their all hanging likedead animals. But every animal had a colourful accessory.The pink, yellow and blue items.

Privato! This a picture of a giant turn table withseveral items on it. There was a dead rabbit, tables, sea horses, silver lobstersand an umbrella.I thought it wall a big mess of random

objects, I didn¶t dig it.

Yawn After a few minutes of staring, looking and inspecting the objects the tour guideasked us to gather around the privato turn table. She asked us few questions.The first one was, ³What do you think the subject of this exhibition was.´ We all had with totally different answers. I was kind of surprised about that. But thesubject was boredom and lonely. And everyone agreed with it because everyonewas already bored. Then we had an explication of few things including the first,

second and third picture and also a Pinocchio like kid sitting on and very highchair with his nose crossing two walls and a spider hanging in the tip of his nose.

Switching Floors

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It was time to switch floors and we went to the fourth floor. On the fourth floor there were more interesting and odd object. Some of them were rather ugly but I guess everything has its beauty.

Okay?This is a shed that is built on a

 platform approx. 2 metres high. It has a stuffed animal next to it and a silver lobster that we had seen earlier at the privato stand.So there is a connectionbetween these stands.

Weird This is a picture of a lot of stuffed animals hanging on a washing line from bright colours to dark. I 

find this very sad because stuffed animals aren¶t supposed to belike this. This is very emotional 

and dramatic stand.

Boring In our minds we have

already died of boredom.The exhibition at thismoment was uninteresting and not enjoyable. A lot of 

 people had enough of thisexhibition and wanted to gohome.

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 Art?Is this art? That¶s the question that I asked m

 

self. It¶s a cloth with daffy duck stitched on it. But it is unfinished. Cosi ma von bonin wanted to make theunfinished the finished in this art piece.

Finally  After hours of boring and repeatedly talks about the exhibition. W e finally went back to the floor were the big circle drawing was on the wall. I but my tag on the

wall and so did other classmates. Then we tour guides led us to the front door and then we said thanks and goodbye, then we left.

Result The Cosi ma von Bonin exhibition was a very weird and first hand interesting but later uninteresting. I don¶t recommend this exhibition except you are lonely and bored then this is probably the place to go. Bu t really this exhibition is not interesting for the overall youth in the Netherlands. The exhibition is till 9January for all you folks that want to go.

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