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.

>Maurice Wyckaert

De tuin van de verliefde kater, 1959-1960

Painting, 100 x 120 cm.

Collection: Private Collection, Antwerp.

When, in 1956, Maurice Wyckaert meets Asger Jorn – they would remain becoming lifelong friends – his painterly activity takes on a totally new direction. He not only begins to paint differently, he also adopts a nomadic lifestyle, with many trips and always other ateliers. His work is more often seen in Germany and Italy than here at home. And it carries clear traces of his new life as well. How and why he makes art is part of a freedom that extends much further afield than the atelier. The furrowed paint layers with their explosive, unmixed colours take up the baton where the lyrical landscape of the romantic had left off. Wyckaert’s landscapes are no symbols, no mirrors of the soul. Piece by piece they show how he sets his hand to a worn out genre, shifting it from the private sphere to the wasteland of society. Freedom can be won. It is not for nothing that Wyckaert remains an active member of the International Situationist up to 1961.

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> Maurice Wyckaert.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: LATT: new art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #4 center for contemporary artistic expressions. M HKA, Antwerpen, 14 September 2012 - 25 November 2012.

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