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De treinen tussen Rotterdam en onder meer Dordrecht, Breda en Zeeland rijden sinds vanochtend weer. Door een brand in een kabelgoot lag het treinverkeer ruim een week stil. Vandaag worden nog afrondende werkzaamheden uitgevoerd aan sporen langs Rotterdam Stadion, maar reizigers merken daar niets van.
De treinen tussen Rotterdam en onder meer Dordrecht, Breda en Zeeland gaan dinsdagochtend mogelijk weer rijden. Door een brand in een kabelgoot ligt het treinverkeer al ruim een week stil, maar het einde is in zicht. Let wel op: dinsdagochtend om 05:00 uur besluit ProRail definitief of het verkeer weer door kan en zo ja, over hoeveel sporen.
Tuchel critical of ‘unreliable’ officiating against Mexico
Victory at the Azteca ‘fuels our belief we are here to stay’
Thomas Tuchel called the standard of refereeing at the World Cup unreliable and erratic as he insisted England are capable of going all the way following their dramatic 3-2 victory against Mexico.
Tuchel fumed after his side held on with 10 men at the Azteca stadium on Sunday night, saying that officials across the board have not been up to scratch at the finals tournament. The German, who was unhappy with Jarell Quansah being sent off for a bad tackle after a review following a recommendation by the video assistant referee, claimed that players do not know what to expect during games and he warned that teams are at risk of being knocked out because of poor refereeing decisions.
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All the Golden Boot talk is currently of Mbappé and Messi, Haaland and Dembélé, Bellingham and Kane. In the meantime, Mikel Oyarzabal modestly goes about his business. Some pre-match reading courtesy of the Good Doctor.
Spain are in If It Ain’t Broke mode. No changes to their starting XI having swept aside Austria.
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In Dutch Golden Age still-life painting, it’s not uncommon to be treated to tables laden with flowers and food such as fruits, game, and fish. These works were painstakingly rendered; one can practically smell the sea. But the flip side is the temporality of these items, as the painting preserves their freshness, but we know they will ultimately decay. This incorporation of memento mori was intentional, as the inevitability of death was something people meditated carefully on.
Flora and fauna in Dutch painting also demonstrate abundance and diversity, from myriad types of foods to hyperrealistic flower arrangements, such as those of Rachel Ruysch, that may have had folkloric hidden meanings. For artist Veks Van Hillik, tropes from these canvases find their way into surreal, eccentric paintings and murals that also nod contemporary concerns and humanity’s relationship to the natural world.
“There is also something almost systematic in the way humans tend to personify animals and project a certain form of anthropomorphism onto the stories we tell about them,” Van Hillik tells Colossal. “I enjoy playing with these unspoken codes inherited from fables and folk tales. And, whether intentionally or not, an ecological subtext—or at the very least a reflection on our ecosystems—often emerges in my work, something I like to preserve and contemplate.”
Fish emerged rather enigmatically as a central focus on Van Hillik’s work, partly because they were among the very first things he learned to draw as a child, when one of his older brothers taught him. “But the marine and aquatic world also offers an almost endless variety of forms, colors, and patterns,” he says. “Sometimes graceful, sometimes monstrous or grotesque, fish are almost always somewhat surreal.”
In his large-scale murals, and also increasingly in the studio, Van Hillik nods to the tones and settings of historical still life paintings, including sturdy surfaces, dark backgrounds, and architectural niches. Spilling from these are objects and animals we instantly recognize, such as birds, plants, and insects. But first impressions may be misleading, as upon closer inspection, a butterfly is missing its body, a nautilus balances on a bubble, and a heron’s beak transforms into a key.
Van Hillik is interested in weight and presence along with unusual relationships and hybrid creatures. Fish, in particular, are the kind of thing we eat regularly, and some of us may even cast a line for them from time to time, but they live in a world entirely different from ours. The earth’s aquatic expanses comprise a realm we are far from fully understanding; we’ve only mapped a little over a quarter of the entire sea floor, for example, and we really have no idea how many marine species there really are.
Along with what Van Hillik describes as their fascinating “peculiar sense of levitation,” fish are among some of his favorite animals to portray, representing both familiarity and mystery. Along with a range of other composite creatures, such as a tortoise shell-backed hare and a vivid, rather unsettlingly big-eyed goldfish with arms and legs, the artist leans into this sense of weightlessness and the uncanny, suspending plant stems, water droplets, and other objects in the air.
Van Hillik’s work was recently included in Common Waters at Arch Enemy Arts, where he is also slated for a solo show later this year. Follow updates on Instagram.
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Redacteur zijn bij nu.nl. Lekker vroeg (09.30 ofzo) naar de Mediavaert, met al die andere bevlogen journalistiekers 'werken' in een 'organisatie' vol corporate kwark. Hele dag persbureaumeuk overpennen - zo'n hybride werkweek van een uurtje of 32 is potverdimme wel aanpoten in ruil voor Schaal 4 van de cao dagbladjournalisten! En wat was het vorige week warm he! Derhalve: langer vrij. RAGEBAIIIIIIIT! Een siësta. In Nederland is het gemiddeld zo'n 325 dagen per jaar koeler dan 25 graden en heus, in 30 graden valt ook nog wel te werken. Laten we een siësta invoeren, dan kunnen de katernen Media en Cultuur en Achterklap met de bleke snuit in de zon. In 'landen als Spanje en Italië' hebben bijna alle werknemers, en zeker iedereen in de grote stad, helemaal geen siësta, maar gewoon een uurtje lunchpauze. Maar hey, pomp er in ons koude kikkerlandje in godsnaam een siësta in, dan kunnen al die ambtenaren van ons iedere dag 6 uur uit het raam staren + 2 uur naar het plafond i.p.v. gewoon 8 uur uit het raam.
