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.

>Hugo Roelandt

Naaktportretten / Nude Portraits, 1976

Photography

©Photo: M HKA, 2016

Collection: Courtesy Estate Hugo Roelandt, Collectie Lydia Van Loock.

The installation is part of Research about the Actual Aesthetic Ideal. This project consisted of an installation and a performance. The installation featured 16 life-size black-and-white nude portraits of m and women, each photographed from both front and rear. Visitors were invited to create their ‘ideal’ body by completing a survey, asking them to assemble an ‘aesthetic ideal’. In an accompanying performance, Roelandt painted five nude models in vivid colours as they posed in stances reminiscent of Michelangelo’s statues. Through this project, Roelandt sought to challenge societal norms surrounding body image and the aesthetic standards imposed by both classical art and modern media. By doing so, he asks us to consider our individual standards and norms.

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Artist

> Hugo Roelandt.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Let's Expand The Sky – in Black and White. Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Objectif Exhibitions, 16 April 2016 - 04 June 2016.

> Exhibition: The Eightees – A Decade of Extremes. M HKA, Antwerpen, 17 June 2016 - 18 September 2016.

> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt – The End Is a New Beginning. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 February 2025 - 25 May 2025.

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> Ensemble: Hugo Roelandt — BODY & SELF PORTRAITS.

Related Items

>Hugo Roelandt, Onderzoek omtrent het actuele esthetische ideaal / Research about the Actual Estheatic Ideal, 1976.Performance.

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