Hieros Glyphos
dal 30/6/2011 al 29/7/2011
Segnalato da
30/6/2011
Hieros Glyphos
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
An exhibition demonstrating that a lot of artists in the early years of this new millennium return to the aesthetics of constructivism and modernism of the 50's up until minimal-art. Works by Ad Reinhardt, Ann Veronica Janssens, Katja Strunz, Michael Dean, Mandla Reuter.
curated by Jan Hoet
Ad Reinhardt / Ann Veronica Janssens / Katja Strunz / Michael Dean / Mandla Reuter
With this exhibition, "Hieros Glyphos", literally "sacred words" we want to demonstrate that a lot of artists in the early years of this new millennium return to the aesthetics of constructivism and modernism of the 50’s up until minimal-art, if only from the question whether these movements reached their ultimate goal or not and if it is not possible, as Benjamin claimed, to connect and reconcile the present world with what already existed and thus to complete a more comprehensive whole, either by contextualization, either through a process of reliving.
Therefor we chose as a challenging reference a work by Ad Reinhardt that is exemplary of what is meant here with modernism. We also have four artists who have all in their idiosyncratic way affinities with the ideas of Reinhardt for whom "art is not what is not art and everything else is different."
Besides Ann Veronica Janssens, there are also works by Katja Strunz, Mandla Reuter and Michael Dean.
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer
Verlatstraat 14, Antwerp
Hors: Tuesday to Friday 10:00-18:30
Saturday 12:00-18:30