点评:In Maastricht, upon the cobbles of the Vrijthof, Between the Sea and the Sky unfolds as a universe of light and remembrance. Step into the museum and you are drawn into a hushed dialogue between earth and heavens, between tradition and renewal. Jimmy Nelson conjures the Dutch soul upon a canvas of silver and pigment: costumes that whisper like ancient prayers, faces carrying the strength of generations, and skies so vast they seem to part the heavens themselves.
Nelson is a traveller of the world, yet the Netherlands has become his home. After his celebrated journeys to distant peoples – immortalised in projects such as Before They Pass Away and Homage to Humanity – he now turns his gaze inward, to the country that embraced him. His 2022 book, filled with hundreds of portraits and landscapes, is an atlas of belonging. The exhibition is its living heart.
Twenty communities appear before his lens, draped in garments that defy the erosion of time. A fisherwoman in Staphorst dots, a farming family rooted in the polder earth, a child staring out to sea with the gravity of an heir – each portrait carried by the soft, merciless Dutch light. It is the same light once captured by Rembrandt, once made to gleam on a milk jug or a wall by Vermeer.
Yet Nelson is no chronicler. He is a storyteller, a poet with a camera. His work is not a document, but a dream. A dream in which heritage is no relic, but a living breath. He invites us to look with eyes of wonder, to see that tradition is not only an echo of what has been, but a melody still resounding – between sea and sky, between past and future.
翻译:在马斯特里赫特,在弗莱特霍夫广场的鹅卵石路上,《海天之间》展厅展现出一个充满光明与回忆的宇宙。步入博物馆,您将被卷入天地之间、传统与复兴之间一场静谧的对话。吉米·尼尔森在银色与颜料的画布上,将荷兰人的灵魂描绘成:如同古老祈祷般低语的服饰,承载着世代传承力量的面容,以及浩瀚无垠、仿佛能将苍穹分开的天空。
尼尔森是一位环球旅行者,而荷兰才是他的故乡。在那些著名的远方民族之旅之后——这些旅程在《在他们逝去之前》和《向人类致敬》等项目中永垂不朽——他如今将目光投向内心,投向那个曾经接纳他的国家。他于2022年出版的书籍,收录了数百幅肖像和风景画,是一本关于归属感的地图集。而此次展览则是它鲜活的灵魂。
二十个社群出现在他的镜头前,披着经得起时间侵蚀的衣裳。一位身着斯塔普霍斯特圆点图案的渔妇,一个扎根于圩田的农家,一个带着继承人般庄重神情凝视大海的孩子——每一幅肖像都笼罩在柔和而无情的荷兰阳光下。这阳光曾被伦勃朗捕捉,也曾被维米尔照耀在牛奶罐或墙壁上。
然而,纳尔逊并非一位编年史家。他是一位讲故事的人,一位手持相机的诗人。他的作品并非一份记录,而是一个梦。在这个梦中,遗产并非遗物,而是鲜活的气息。他邀请我们用惊奇的眼光去观察,去发现传统不仅是过去的回响,更是一首至今仍在回响的旋律——在海天之间,在过去与未来之间。