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.

Above the Bay of Naples from Via Partenope, Naples, September 2008, 2008-2010

Photography, 400 x 2600 cm.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. M00171).

The monumental tapestry Above the Bay of Naples... was made for Horsfield’s solo exhibition Schering en Inslag (Confluence and Consequence), organized by the M HKA in 2010, where a large number of his tapestries were on view. This piece arose within the context of the Napoli Conversation Project, one of Horsfield’s famous social projects, and was fabricated in long collaboration with Flanders Tapestries, a textile factory in West Flanders. Under Horsfield’s lead, the factory translated one of his photographs (a panoramic view over the fireworks display in the Bay of Naples) into a gigantic and very detailed work of woven textile. With his tapestries, Horsfield reflects on the concept of time. The slow fabrication of the work stands in stark contrast to the rapidity of the moment when the scene is first captured by camera. Horsfield's combining of modern, lightning-fast photography with centuries-old tapestry making, presents a contradiction. Moreover, for Horsfield the carpet is a metaphor for his vision concerning social relationships. The color threads from which the carpet consist depict nothing on their own, but together indeed form a remarkable image, just as the significance of an individual must be seen within the contextual mesh of a broader social fabric.

"It is a recognition of being at a particular historical point. I don’t mean being at some point in a sequence or necessarily as part of events which are unfolding. But history, as we embody it, that what we encounter in every moment, that we are." - Craigie Horsfield, 1993

"And this brings us back, not only to the problem of how tapestries can be “of our time,” or for that matter how the photograph can be woven into the tapestry now that it is possible to do so (thus representing a certain state of art), but even more basically to the question of artistic time, which we know to be different form “real time”." - Carol Armstrong, 2010

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Artist

> Craigie Horsfield.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.

> Exhibition: Above the Bay of Naples from Via Partenope, Naples, September 2008. M HKA, Antwerp, 20 January 2018 - 29 April 2018.

> Exhibition: Craigie Horsfield – Confluence and Consequence. M HKA, Antwerpen, 08 October 2010 - 16 January 2011.

> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

> Ensemble: beeld.

Related Items

>Craigie Horsfield, Plaça de Toros La Monumental, Gran via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona (Lions), 1996-2010.Textile, tapestry, 390 x 1170 cm.

>Craigie Horsfield, Plaça de Toros La Monumental, Gran via de les Corts Catalanes, Barcelona (Horses), 1996-2010.Photography, tapestry, 390 x 1170 cm.