“Ode aan Lois Kapr” is a light artwork by Jan Tervoort presented at Amsterdam Light Festival 2013 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
When there was no electricity yet in Amsterdam, lanterns were lit manually by lamplighters. During Amsterdam Light Festival 2013-2014 this phenomenon returned to Amsterdam. When dusk falls, a rower lights twenty, white, vertical candles that float on the river Amstel.
About Jan Tervoort
Jan Tervoort (NL) is an artist. Tervoort was the protégé of Prague artist Lois Kapr (1922). He opened his first gallery in Bali, together with Ceny Roesllyta. In Bali he developed &ls...
Programme information from Amsterdam Light Festival. Short excerpt quoted for reference; see the original page for full text, images and credits.