Two exhibitions
dal 6/6/2013 al 21/9/2013
Segnalato da
6/6/2013
Two exhibitions
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen M HKA, Antwerp
The media artist David Blair juggles with archive images, animation and live action to create a pseudo-scientific film in which he explores the boundaries between fact and fiction, truth and invention. 'The Collection as a Character' tries to portray the character of the M HKA collection as it has been shaped by the reality of institutional art collecting in our times.
LONELY AT THE TOP: VRIELYNCK COLLECTION #3
David Blair – The Telepathic Place: from the Making of ‘The Telepathic Motion Picture of The Lost Tribes’
07 jun 2013 - 08 sep 2013
David Blair is the third artist that the M HKA, in association with the curator Edwin Carels (KSK/HoGent), has invited to interact with the Vrielynck Collection. The basis is provided by The Telepathic Motion Picture of The Lost Tribes, an expansive research project that takes us in a flashback to the reconstruction of a lost film production in Manchuria, the doomed epic entitled The Lost Tribes.
The media artist David Blair juggles with archive images, animation and live action to create a pseudo-scientific film in which he explores the boundaries between fact and fiction, truth and invention. His intention is to show that history is always a construction that is never definite but always changing and which requires new interpretations. In addition, the project is an allusion to the effect of nostalgia on our consumption of information.
For this exhibition Blair is also using a series of paintings, assemblages and short video animations from his own archives, which have continued expanding since 1994; they add to the evocation of the history of The Lost Tribes. A hypnotic soundtrack transports the viewer into the delirious dream of an unhinged archivist, ‘an infinite universe, a filmic pantheon full of political ideologies that readily dissolve into a non-linear experience of time.’ (E. McMehen)
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COLLECTIE XXXIII
The Collection as a Character
07 jun 2013 - 22 sep 2013
The Collection as a Character will reflect the current priorities of the M HKA collection: to evaluate the avant-garde tradition of Antwerp, to explore the new multi-polar world order, to discuss the nature of images today, to articulate the importance of the performative and the socialy-engaged in contemporary art.
Programme
18:00
The Belgian-American artist Alain Arias-Misson will organise a public poem in the city of Antwerp (location: Grote Markt): The Public Linguistic Poem
20:30
Opening of the exhibition by:
Bart De Wever, Mayor of Antwerp
&
Manuel Borja-Villel, director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (MNCARS, Madrid, Spain) and member of ‘L’Internationale’
The Collection as a Character is an attempt to review our collection after 25 years of creative contingency: visions articulated by forceful personalities, opportunities presenting themselves, limitations inspiring novel solutions. In other words, it tries to portray the character of the M HKA collection as it has been shaped by the reality of institutional art collecting in our times.
The ensemble is key to characterising our collection. It is a coherent group of works that is significant enough, in either qualitative or quantitative terms, to be regarded as more than a presence of works or series of works by this or that artist. M HKA Ensembles is also the name of our online digital database (ensembles.org).
This exhibition and the accompanying book will present some 20 ensembles that help us to understand the M HKA collection. Among these are ensembles of works by prominent Flemish artists such as Vaast Colson, Luc Deleu, Jan Fabre, Toon Tersas, Luc Tuymans and Panamarenko (who is a special case because of his donation to M HKA of his former house and studio at Biekorfstraat in Antwerp). M HKA has important ensembles by artists from other parts of the world, for instance James Lee Byars, Jimmie Durham, C.K. Rajan and a number of artists from the former Soviet Union, India, China and North Africa. There are also ensembles of a different kind, such as the Vrielynck Collection of objects from the prehistory of cinema or the 1970s archive of the International Culture Centre in Antwerp.
Image: Luc Tuymans, Polaroids, 1977-2006, Collection M HKA
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