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.

>Takashi Murakami

The Birth of a Universe, 2013

Sculpture, variable dimensions.

Courtesy of the artist and Kaikai Kiki Gallery

Collection: Courtesy of the artist and Kaikai Kiki Gallery.

Takashi Murakami creates a busy biotope that is seemingly teeming with vibrancy, but behind which lie emptiness, superficiality and nihilism. To emphasise this, he uses the commercial market principles of Pop Art and has his designs reproduced from his studio as a mass product. Luc Tuymans points to the extreme PR idea behind this process; a practice that was initiated by Rubens during the Baroque by working with assistants and executors in different workshops. Luc Tuymans shows Murakami’s artistic and crafts-like process by means of a photomontage and various models – in Styrofoam – of the golden sculpture The Birth of a Universe.

Text: Hans Willemse
Translations: Michael Meert

 

 

 

 

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>Takashi Murakami, The Birth of a Universe, 2013

>Takashi Murakami, The Birth of a Universe, 2013

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> Takashi Murakami.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque. M HKA, Antwerpen, 01 June 2018 - 16 September 2018.

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