ROTTERDAM.- Using thousands of fluorescent heart-shaped ornaments, a dazzling temporary visual spectacle is fashioned onto the ceiling, walls and floor of the Rotterdam iconic Maastunnel. Blacklights replace existing lights, making thousands of fluorescent hearts glow and float on their endless background. The 600 meters length artwork offers every visitor an immersive experience.

The artists duo Madje Vollaers en Pascal Zwart (VOLLAERSZWART), well known for city dressing projects in Istanbul, Amsterdam, Milan and Rotterdam initiated this ‘longest artwork one can think of’.

With Tunnel of Love VOLLAERSZWART drowns us in a hallucinating fantasy world. After one enters the pedestrian tunnel, nobody can escape the love virus. The Tunnel of Love is a love declaration from VOLLAERSZWART to the people of the city of Rotterdam, a city of 176 nationalities, and its visitors.

Tunnel of Love (free admission). 8 - 15 February, including Valentine Day 14 February Maastunnel, Rotterdam

Madje Vollaers and Pascal Zwart started Studio VZ in 1991 as a design studio for interdisciplinary design and visual communication. VOLLAERSZWART explores the interaction between various disciplines such as architecture, sculpture, couture, culture and communication. Public space is the platform for their design activities, which focus on the interactions between architecture, audience, functionality and experience of public space. VOLLAERSZWART has realized various projects in the fields of arts and design. It is at the intersection of these disciplines that the ideal situation is created for new visual scenarios to be developed. In the last 20 years VOLLAERSZWART have become established as designers for exhibitions and festivals with their haute sculpture approach to city dressing, exhibition design, public artworks, eye catchers and scenery.