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.

>Jef Verheyen

• 0196 • Zwarte Zomer, 1965

Painting, 195 x 195 cm, 198 x 198 cm with frame.

©Jef Verheyen, photo: Jan Liégeois - Axel Vervoordt, Jef Verheyen Archive

Collection: Jef Verheyen Archive.

In paintings such as Zwarte Zomer (Black Summer) and Permeke, Verheyen paints his perception of the Flemish atmosphere, which is rather dark. Later in the 1960s, he travels to Brazil, Mexico, Tunisia, Spain, Italy and France in search of light, which is everywhere different.

A northerner in search of southern light: Vincent van Gogh went on the same quest before him. In a letter written in Provence in 1889, Van Gogh says to his brother about the southern light:

‘… perhaps my journey into the south will bear fruit, however, because the difference of the stronger light, the blue sky, teaches one to see, but especially and only if one looks at it for a long time. (…) one must first and gradually accustom one’s eyes to the different light.’

During his travels, Verheyen also writes in his letters about the enchantment of the light. ‘Everything shimmers here!’ He tries to render the essence of those impressions on canvas. 

(source: KMSKA, 2024)

 

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

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> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen Retrospectieve. Paleis voor Schone Kunsten / Paleis des Beau-Arts, Brussels, 14 September 1979 - 28 October 1979.

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> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen Retrospectieve. Musée Rath - Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, 19 April 1980 - 20 May 1980.

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> Exhibition: Ideale Ruimte. Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Wijnegem (Kanaal), 14 April 2018 - 02 June 2018.

> Exhibition: Jef Verheyen. Window on Infinity. KMSKA, Antwerpen, 23 March 2024 - 18 August 2024.

> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - OEUVRE.

> Ensemble: Jef Verheyen - Works from the 1960s.

> Ensemble: Window on Infinity - Room 09.

Related Items

>Ivo Michiels, Jef Verheyen, Het lichtgewicht van de schilder Jef Verheyen , 1984.Text, ink on paper, 11 p..

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>Jef Verheyen, List of works stored in atelier Ten Bosch.Text, ink on paper, A4.

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>Jef Verheyen, List of works, 1960-1965.Text, ink on paper (invitation card), 1 page.

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