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.

>Klemens Gasser

Less, 2012

Book, 20.9 x 13.7 cm, 86 p, language: English, publisher: Self-published by the artist, ISBN: N/A.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp. (Inv. no. B 2025/475).

Literary synopsis

Less encounters Sandra. They fall in love and travel to the East end dealing with sex in the woods, an exhibition price list and the small things in life that count.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

Less exists as book and as sculpture with the novels stacked on the floor and a sign above inviting to take one (Antigone Things, exhibition 2012.) Klemens Gasser is a painter. His paintings are raw canvases. Their titles are stories, either Meditation records or Masturbation Stories. The titles, usually 1 to 3 pages long, are printed on letter sized paper and glued to the back of the canvases. They are not visible when you look at the canvas although you see folds and a relief in the canvas from the contracted glue and paper on the back. They float mostly in the centre. But the title goes with the work and can be found in the checklist or on labels if such are used. Gasser’s paintings start on a computer, or more precisely on a digital recorder for Meditation Paintings and a blackberry for Masturbation Paintings. Telling stories is his art. Breaking language is his inconsistent goal. Sticking his head out of language, not possible but trying, killing narration, without talent or guts. There is distraction, unknown, disappearing, confusion, and always language that dictates the form of your thoughts and your actions and unsatisfaction that comes with that.

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Media

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>Stacked Novel to take one. 8 1/4” x 5 3/8” (Novel size; height of stack variable, please replenish). Edition of 3 + 1AP. Exhibited: 2012, Klemens Gasser, Antigone Things, Gasser Grunert³, New York

>Stacked Novel to take one. 8 1/4” x 5 3/8” (Novel size; height of stack variable, please replenish). Edition of 3 + 1AP. Exhibited: 2012, Klemens Gasser, Antigone Things, Gasser Grunert³, New York

>Stacked Novel to take one. 8 1/4” x 5 3/8” (Novel size; height of stack variable, please replenish). Edition of 3 + 1AP. Exhibited: 2012, Klemens Gasser, Antigone Things, Gasser Grunert³, New York

>Stacked Novel to take one. 8 1/4” x 5 3/8” (Novel size; height of stack variable, please replenish). Edition of 3 + 1AP. Exhibited: 2012, Klemens Gasser, Antigone Things, Gasser Grunert³, New York

Artist

> Klemens Gasser.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Book Lovers 4.0 (Pop-up Bookstore). De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, 28 January 2014 - 02 February 2014.

> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.

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