KunstRAI



KunstRAI is a covention that returns every year in RAI-Amsterdam, the large Convention Centre located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. KunstRAI Art Amsterdam is the longest running art fair for contemporary autonomous and applied art in the Netherlands: a public fair with over seventy quality galleries that reflect the diversity of the rich Dutch offer of contemporary art, applied art and design. Visitors will find autonomous painting, sculpture, photography and graphic art as well as contemporary glass, ceramics and jewelry of the highest quality..

In may, 2013 at the opening of the KunstRai in Amsterdam, this shocking artwork was displayed near the entance. Peaple got the shock of their lives when seeing our favorite Sesame Street figure Pino lying on the floor. Dead. With his intestines all over the pavement. This work is made by visual artist Bart Jansen. He’s the same artist that made a flying helicopter out of his deceased cat. You can say whatever you want about his work, but it’s never boring and always draws the attention…And it carries a message as well. With this work, Bart Jansen stands up for nature conservation. He explains, “A national park only counts when it’s threatened, by an oil leak or a highway. Now, the only bird of which we thought would never be threatened, is killed on the road verge of the advancing civilization.”