On the Nature of the Beast , 2009
Textile, 290 x 560 cm.
© M HKA
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community (Inv. no. BK7732_M481).
This tapestry is a woven interpretation of a photographic image constructed from press photographs taken at the artist’s exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London. For the Whitechapel, Macuga borrowed the tapestry version of Picasso’s Guernica from the UN building in New York and installed it in the gallery where it became the backdrop for meetings by various groups, public speeches and community events. The tapestry shown in this exhibition depicts an address given in front of the Guernica tapestry by Prince William, and is a critique by the artist of her own work and how its political meaning came to be circumvented. It also reflects a history of royal tapestry workshops, and the how the depiction of royal appearances where often communicated through this medium.
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Artist
> Goshka Macuga.
Exhibitions & Ensembles
> 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: Textiles – Art and the Social Fabric. M HKA, Antwerpen, 11 September 2009 - 03 January 2010.
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> Ensemble: M HKA_DEFAULT_WORKS.
> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.
> Ensemble: Recalibrating the Public's Image.
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> Ensemble: When Was Modernism?.