Sausage Series, 2016-2020
Installation, variable dimensions.
©Mathieu Verhaeghe - image: We Document Art
Collection: Stad Antwerpen, in langdurige bruikleen in M HKA (Inv. no. SCA0031).
In his work, Mathieu Verhaeghe (b. 1986, Antwerp) seeks to channel the tension between art, existential weight, and humour. He questions his position as an artist and the status of the art object in his conceptual oeuvre. His Sausage Series consists of a series of pig intestines stuffed with different types of paint. Verhaeghe approaches the individual works as paintings, although he deliberately seeks the boundary between painting, sculpture and everyday objects. On the one hand, the work can be interpreted as a product of conceptual and philosophical reflections; on the other, it reveals itself as the result of an artisanal process. The further drying and deformation of the ‘sausages’ is an inherent part of the work, which is never really finished.
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> Mathieu Verhaeghe.
With a background in philosophy, Mathieu Verhaeghe’s practice sits at the tension between art, existential weight and humour.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: AMBERES – Roberto Bolaño’s Antwerp. M HKA , Antwerp, 07 June 2019 - 15 September 2019.
> Exhibition: Lipstick and Gas Masks – The City Collection Antwerp. M HKA, Antwerpen, 13 February 2021 - 18 April 2021.
> Exhibition: The City Collection: IN/SIGHT. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 May 2024 - 06 January 2025.
> Ensemble: The City Collection / De Stadscollectie / La collection municipale.
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> Ensemble: 2020.
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>Mathieu Verhaeghe, Rack, 2019.Installation, iron, rope, small pork intestine, house pain, 300 x 150 x 280 cm.