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.

>Philippe Van Snick

Lavabo, 1975

Photography, 18 x 24 cm (30 x 323 cm (framed)).

image: © M HKA, Courtesy Philippe Van Snick & Tatjana Pieters

Collection: Courtesy Philippe Van Snick & Tatjana Pieters.

Philippe Van Snick is fascinated by numbers and binary logic. In several works he explores the changing relationships between dots. That way, he arrives at a geometric artistic language.

For the work Lavabo (sink) Van Snick uses his ten-dot system. He drips ink drops into a water-filled sink.

Here, Van Snick explores the scientific concept of entropy, i.e. a measure for the disorder or degeneration in a system. The ink droplets expand into the otherwise still water.

Entropy is also linked to the passage of time and the experience thereof. Van Snick seeks to summarise this in his series. The viewer is thus invited to experience the event's process itself.

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> Philippe Van Snick.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: From Broodthaers to Braeckman – Photography in the Visual Arts in Belgium. M HKA, Antwerpen, 06 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.

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