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.

>Apostolos Georgiou

Untitled, 2004

Painting

©image: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens

Collection: Private Collection.

Apostolos Georgiou’s painterly work is characterized by a distinctive personal style, formed in the 1980s. Untitled is an anthropocentric and markedly narrative painting, where the artist draws his subjects from people’s everyday lives. Interpersonal relationships, and personal anxieties and deadlocks, are conveyed with a subtle sense of humour, sarcasm and affection, throwing into relief the existential and autobiographical character of his work, as well as his central questioning of human relationships and human existence. […] Georgiou paints from nature, through the observation of the world around him. His subjects are mostly derived from his personal experience and from small everyday episodes, focusing on situations such as chaos, confusion, and complication, as well as on a nonsensical and often surreal element, which he detects even in the most quotidian acts. […] Through his prosaic descriptions, Georgiou investigates deeper questions concerning the constant presence of human fear and the fundamental despair and difficulties in life. The protagonist is an anti-hero filled with a poignant sense of life and an anxiety to exist in this world. 

— Daphne Vitali

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Artist

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> Apostolos Georgiou.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.

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> Ensemble: Secular Devotion.

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