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.

>Joseph Beuys

Hirschdenkmäler, 1958-1982

Installation, variable dimensions .

©SABAM België, 2017 - Courtesy Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris - London - Salzburg, photo: M HKA, 2017

Collection: Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris - London - Salzburg.

The oldest component of this installation is the central sculpture Hirsch (Stag), from 1958, consists of an old ironing board, that belonged to Beuys' mother, resting on ebony. The thirty-eight Urtiere (Primitive Creatures) have a more formless, primordial appearance, but incorporate tools – the first signs of civilisation. Ziege (Goat) is made of a cart and a pickaxe, and is related to the mining of the Earth and to technology.

The last element, Boothia Felix is a cross-section of the Earth in which roots and pieces of pottery can be seen, mounted on a sculptor’s modelling tripod. The compass on top and the title – the name of a peninsula in the North American arctic– situates the scene near the home of Inuit communities. The elements that make up Hirschdenkmäler were first brought together as an installation during the exhibition Zeitgeist in 1982 in Berlin. The way it is arranged, emphases the processual, the unfinished.

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> Joseph Beuys.

Joseph Beuys was one of the most significant and influential artist of the twentieth century, who expanded the scope of art into t

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Joseph Beuys – Greetings from the Eurasian. M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 October 2017 - 21 January 2018.

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