Het Concrete [The Concrete]
Ensemble
The Concrete brings together ‘optical’ and ‘kinetic’ works created in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The works are based on tangible materials and structures and relate to our physical and sensorial existence. But they differ from the more familiar abstract art of Late Modernism – not least the American Abstract Expressionist painters (Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Cy Twombly and others), for whom abstraction is often a form of ‘representation’ of the unrepresentable. By contrast, the Concrete becomes a ‘tool’ for intervening in the real (material, social, political) world by exposing and thereby changing its materiality.
Some of the works in this ensemble are shown in Antwerp, while others are exhibited in Eindhoven.
Items
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Hay, Cornhusks, Bricks
Tomaž Šalamun, Hay, Cornhusks, Bricks, 1969. Photography.
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Tavole di accertamento
Piero Manzoni, Tavole di accertamento, 1958-1960. Print, ink, paper, 8 x (572 x 472 mm).
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Concetto Spaziale: Attese
Lucio Fontana, Concetto Spaziale: Attese. Painting, oil, canvas, 130,5 x 97,2 cm.
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Keiho
Victor Vasarely, Keiho, 1956. Painting, oil, canvas, 195.5 x 130.5 x 2.5 cm.
Actors
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Henk Peeters
Henk Peeters (1925, the Netherlands, lives in Hall) abandoned a figurative, socially-engaged style of painting for an informal, material-base
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Yves Klein
The Yves Klein of 1959 already had an extreme reputation on the art scene. He had swept the table clear of arguments about form and color wit
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Jan J. Schoonhoven
Jan Schoonhoven (1914–1994, the Netherlands) started as a draughtsman, inspired by Paul Klee’s poetic expressionism. From the mid-1950s he em
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Paul Van Hoeydonck
Paul Van Hoeydonck (1925, Belgium, lives in Antwerp) co-founded the G58 group in Antwerp, which organises a series of exhibitions at the Hess