The Ninetynine Tulips Podcast: Recent Episodes
Arto Dŭaras
This is a podcast all about tulips! For an art project I paint 99 tulips who played a role in an extraordinary event in 17th century Holland; the tulip mania. For this project I do a lot of research. And as I learn, I want to share the stories with you. I dive into the history of the tulip and talk of events from long ago, and I tell present day tulip stories. I talk about the role of the tulip in Dutch culture and Dutch art. I speak about tulip gardening and about the present day tulip trade in the Netherlands. Join me in discovering the world of the tulip!
The second exhibition of the Ninetynine Tulips Collection is hosted at the Tulip Experience Amsterdam. Visitors to the Experience can delve into the history of bulb growing, wander through a tulip field in full bloom, dine at the onsite restaurant, explore shops filled with tulip-themed gadgets, pick their own bouquet of tulips at the indoor tulip field, and visit the Showroom of Volckert Dircksz Coornhert, where ninety-nine of his personally grown tulips are displayed in painted form.
De tweede tentoonstelling van de Negennegen Tulpen wordt gehost in de Tulip Experience Amsterdam. Bezoekers van de Experience kunnen zich verdiepen in de geschiedenis van de bollenteelt, dwalen door een tulpenveld in volle bloei, dineren in het restaurant ter plaatse, winkels verkennen gevuld met op tulpen geïnspireerde gadgets, hun eigen boeket tulpen plukken op het overdekte tulpenveld, en de Showroom van Volckert Dircksz Coornhert bezoeken, waar negenennegentig van zijn persoonlijk gekweekte tulpen in geschilderde vorm worden tentoongesteld.
Join us for a special edition of the 99 Tulips podcast as we celebrate MuseumWeek 2023. Today's theme is the environment, aligning with World Environment Day. In this episode titled "In Search of Wild Tulips," we explore the impact of climate change on these tulips. I interview Brett Wilson, a conservationist and scientist, who shares his experiences and the importance of preserving wild tulips in their natural habitat.
Brett Wilson, a renowned conservationist, scientist, and photographer, joins us to discuss the challenges faced by wild tulips due to climate change. With his extensive research and expeditions in Central Asia, Brett highlights the beauty and diversity of these tulips and emphasizes the need to gather data for their conservation. This podcast episode is our contribution to MuseumWeek's environment-themed day, Ninetynine Tulips is aiming to raise awareness about the threats to wild tulips and inspire action for their preservation.
Creating 99 paintings was quite a task. I talk about the proces of creation, research, challenges and developments toward the exhibition which opened at the 18th of March 2023.
In the podcast we talk about serval featured projects, of which the Dafeng Holland Flower Park in China, the Culture of Flowers Festival Myanmar and the Tulip Time Festival in Holland Michigan USA.
And don't miss it: In the end we have a talk about the Tulipa Acuminata - the so called Istanbul tulip!
Together with Hakan Özcan I am looking back at the expositions (and adventures) we had with the Istanbul Amsterdam MEETUP. An exposition we held in The Netherlands and Turkey. The paintings we made depicted Dutch and Turkish culture; now what do we, as very diverse countries, have in common? The tulip!
The Sultan with Tulips is one of large scale paintings of people who have been of great importance for the social, cultural, artistic and commercial meaning of the tulip
The works will be displayed in the future art exposition on the story of the tulip.
Link to the website of Peter Hengst.
The tulip world is very big so there are many activities going on. I can map about 10 categories/sections in the tulip world. Most obvious are the businesses which have a link with tourism. In this episode I interview Lotte Alders who is the inventor of Tilly Tulp, a pluche cuddle toy in the shape of a tulip.
See more about Tilly Tulp at:
www.tillytulp.nl
www.instagram.com/tillytulp/
www.facebook.com/TillyTulp/
This is an interview with Arie Dwarswaard, editor at the Greenity, the magazine for professional bulb growers and traders. Arie has made a study of the live of Carolus Clusius and can tell a lot about the man who laid the foundation for what would become one of Holland's bigger export products. Worldwide 85% of the flower bulbs are supplied by Dutch bulb growers.
Meet the man who stood at the basis in 1593 in Leiden and layed the foudation for tulip cultivation.
This is an interview with Arie Dwarswaard, editor at the Greenity, the magazine for professional bulb growers and traders. Arie has made a study of the live of Carolus Clusius and can tell a lot about the man who laid the foundation for what would become one of Holland's bigger export products. Worldwide 85% of the flower bulbs are supplied by Dutch bulb growers.
Meet the man who stood at the basis in 1593 in Leiden and layed the foudation for tulip cultivation.
In this episode I interview Victoria Chitii of Tulimania art. Victoria and her husband Andrey Nikolaev have a photography project of detailed tulip photo's with the aim to document all tulips.
instagram.com/tulipmania.art
www.tulipmania.art
Today we quickly continue with where we left of last week. Things are starting to heat up, people look around and ask themselves, should I join in and make a lot of bucks or should I absolutely not do that as is written in the pamphlets that are being distributed in the town, lets find out...
Have a look at the mentioned tulip book of the International Instituut of Social Studies
The website of Mr. Henk Looijesteijn.
Today the continuation of the interview with historian Henk Looijesteijn, we are in the golden century and start of with the symbolical and religious meaning of the tulip. Followed by the names of the tulips in the tulip mania, specifying one special tulip the Semper Augustus, and a slowly growing trade in tulips and growing numbers of bulb growers. Historians still don’t know or debate about what made the tulip mania happen. We end at the factors which contributed to the craze as things start to heat up.
In this first part of the interviews historian Henk Looijesteijn talks about the events leading up to the independent Dutch republic and the following golden age by the influx of protestant immigrants which boosted developments. In chronological order we follow the development towards the tulip mania. The role of Carolus Clusius with his study of the tulip. An extraordinary flower which can change color but which is diseased.
Tulip for diner! The tulip is a pretty flower to look at, but you could also eat it if you want to try something new. That is you can eat the bulb. Every Dutch person knows the stories of the war that people eat tulip bulbs to survive. That made me think, how would a tulip taste? I interviewed cookbook writer Johanna Huiberts who has a biological flowerbulb farm and sells bulb you can use in a culinary experiment!
If you like a copy of the cookbook check Eet Smakelijke Tulp
And check their website at Huiberts biologische bloembollen.
The tulip is a mountain flower originality from Central Asia, It moved with Turkish tribes to what became the Ottoman Empire (present day Turkey). The Ottomans have the credit for the first cultivation of the tulip. In the 16th century bulbs slowly spread into Europe. Carolus Clusius officially introduced the tulip in Holland with his studies of the flower. Popular from the start, tulip bulbs became the subject of speculation, for a short period. The tulip remained popular however and Holland slowly became the world leading nation in tulip growing, cultivation and tulip trade.
Follow the development of the 99 paintings at Instagram 'Arto Dŭaras'.
The nintynine tulips from the era of the tulip mania are based on images from the Dutch tulip book. Which were the flower catalogues of the 17th century. I will paint in the old tradiontal way of tempera on wooden panel covered with a layer of chalk. In this episode I talk of the process of painting. I link to pictures of the process which you can see at my Instagram account Arto Dŭaras.
In this episode I talk about how I got the idea to paint ninetynine tulips from the time of the tulip mania. The idea came from a newly discoverd tulip book. That book led me to the rea;ize how little I know of the tulip. In The Netherlands the tulip is all arround, but what do I konw of the flower, the history, the trade, the events - not so much, though the flower is a national symbol.
When I started to Google it hit me, there is so much to find out and to tell! For many episodes I will share the stories with you.
Follow the development of the 99 paintings at Instagram 'Arto Dŭaras'.
The Ninetynine Tulips podcast is a podcast which is all about tulips!
I will talk about tulip history as I paint 99 tulips from the era of the tulip mania. And there is so much to talk about. The tulip is part of the Dutch culture, the flower is simply everywhere. In art, events, trade, folklore, in the garden. In the podcast I tell the story of the adventure of discovering the world of the tulip. For this I will read, travel to historic sites and interview experts in all fields related to the tulip - and in The Netherlands that are many!
Check instagram and ninetynine tulips.com to follow the developments.