Motorcyclists and High-voltage Pylons
Roline Wichers Wierdsma made several drypoint etchings of motorcyclists in the 1920s. In this bold etching, they storm towards us at breakneck speed along a road flanked by high-voltage pylons. The artist and critic Albert Plasschaert characterized them in 1925 as ‘brutal, fierce monsters.’ And he was right: these speed demons are not making way for anybody.
Roline Maria Wichers Wierdsma