M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

>Jan Cox

The Meaning of Surrealism

Text, 12 p.

Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen

Collection: Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen.

This manuscript of an educational lecture values surrealism as a move to liberate the human spirit from conformity and hypocrisy.  The two World Wars are cited in evidence.  That world that surrealism challenged is a world totally out of balance, living on the edge of a volcano.  Cox illustrated this mindset with quotations from De Chirico. The liberating action of surrealism, with its use of automatic writing and paranoiac-critical activity, and with its tight relationship to the real, is explained by Cox through works by Duchamp, Dali, Ernst and Miro.

The manuscript The Joy of Experience of Totality appears to be an earlier version of this text. 

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