Madonna, 2010
Film, 93.5 x 85.5 cm .
©image: M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK7803_M507).
With Madonna, Koen van den Broek demonstrates his affinity with classical painting.Van den Broek originally made this painting for the exhibition Masterpieces in the MAS at Antwerp’s Museum Aan de Stroom. Here, the clear reference is to Jean Fouquet’s 1452 painting Madonna surrounded by Seraphim and Cherubim. Fouquet’s use of color and compositional division indeed find echoes in Van den Broek’s Madonna, but the in-part abstracted execution is typical for Koen van den Broek’s oeuvre. This iconic image for the exhibition Masterpieces in the MAS and the accompanying book Visual Thinking. Five Centuries of Images in Antwerp, wherein visual thinking from the 19th century is thematised.
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>Madonna (2011)
>Koen van den Broek while painting 'Madonna', 2011.
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> Koen van den Broek.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: MASTERPIECES AT MAS: Five centuries of images in Antwerp. Museum Aan de Stroom, Antwerpen, 17 May 2011 - 30 December 2012.
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> Exhibition: Herita-project. Herita, Antwerpen, 31 January 2014.
> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Visite Genk - Genkenaren kiezen kunst. C-Mine, Genk, 02 July 2014 - 31 August 2014.
> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.
> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.
> Exhibition: The Collection. M HKA, Antwerpen, 28 April 2017 - 31 December 2021.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: Belgische kunst [Belgian Art].
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2013 [Acquisitions 2013].
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> Ensemble: Secular Devotion.
> Ensemble: The Collection.
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> Ensemble: Virgin and Child with Seraphim and Cherubim.