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.

Zonder titel, foto's op aluminium gebaseerd op ingekleurde zelfportretten uit de vroege jaren 1970 / Untitled, photos on aluminum based on tinted self-portraits from the early 1970's, 1993

Photography

©Estate Hugo Roelandt – photo: M HKA

Collection: Estate Hugo Roelandt.

“Maybe this was an experiment in the interaction between graphics and photography. Where does the photo begin and where does the graphic intervention end and vice-versa. Were they coloured photo’s or photographic graphics? I’ll leave that question unanswered, it’s not important under what category they are classified.” (Hugo Roelandt)

– Lieve De Pelsmaeker, Hugo Roelandt, grafisch vormgever, Vlaams Weekblad voor Allen, 35 (Aalst, 1973), p. 7.

 

During his colour experiments Hugo Roelandt reworked some of his earliest work. Among them a series of six coloured self-portraits he had first shown in 1973 during an exhibition by former students of the Academy of Aalst. In 1993 he reworked these works and made them into large photos glued on aluminium plates which, together with a monochrome black photo and a blank aluminium plate on which at the bottom only his signature was engraved (it was at the same time projected as a slide), were conceived as an ‘aluminium book’. He showed the pages in the Antwerp Academy as his graduation project at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts HISK. Together with his favourite cactus plant (lit by a spot) and a large photo of a green elephant – a remembrance of his travelling to India when he was in his twenties and visiting the sacred Sikh shrine at Amritsar.

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>Hugo Roelandt – Untitled, photos on aluminum based on tinted self-portraits from the early 1970's, 1993 (Exhibition view Objectif Exhibitions)

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Artist

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Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Let's Expand The Sky – in Colour. Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerpen, 18 June 2016 - 30 July 2016.

> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt — The End Is a New Beginning. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 February 2025 - 25 May 2025.

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> Ensemble: Hugo Roelandt — BODY & SELF PORTRAITS.