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.

Zonder titel (Souvenir) [Untitled (Souvenir)], 1982

Leaflet, 231 x 150 cm.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK005124).

What we see in Walter Swennen’s paintings is seemingly easily recognizable. When, however, we try to arrive at a deeper interpretation of the works, we get stuck. Why the windmill? What exactly has happened, or will happen? Why such dark surroundings? In the end, the easily named images appear not so recognizable, nor as unambiguous, as all that. The works raise more questions than they answer. And it is precisely here that lays the power of Swennen’s art. Not the painting or the drawing as end-stage, but the process that takes place when we look at the work. Swennen provides us with some tools, stepping stones for starting a personal journey through his works. While at first we could still follow the artist via the nameable motif, could laugh along with it and understand it, to get any further we soon have to take a leap in the dark. For behind the recognizable elements there hides a deep void. The artist leads us only up to a point, and from there we are left to our own thoughts, feelings and fantasies.

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> Walter Swennen.

"Vital is the beauty of the leap towards emptiness", Walter Swennen.

Brussels-based artist Walter Swennen

Exhibitions & Ensembles

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> Exhibition: Museum in Motion - Walter Swennen. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 September 2022 - 08 January 2023.

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.

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> Ensemble: The Hat or the Rose, the Common Place.

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> Ensemble: An Architecture for Art - Walter Swennen.

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>Walter Swennen, Zonder titel (Gods Voet) [Untitled (God's Foot)], 1985.Painting, oil paint on canvas, 200 x 160 cm.