Sanguine / Bloedrood

During the cultural city festival Antwerp Baroque 2018. Rubens Inspires, the M HKA, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, juxtaposes the spirit of the baroque masters with the vision of contemporary top artists. With the exhibition Sanguine/Bloedrood (Blood Red), curator Luc Tuymans aims to overwhelm the visitor by placing key works from the baroque of, among others, Francisco de Zurbarán and Caravaggio, in dialogue with works by classical contemporary masters, such as On Kawara and Edward Kienholz, as well as new works by contemporary stars such as Zhang Enli, Takashi Murakami, Michaël Borremans, Sigmar Polke and Tobias Rheberger.

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Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen

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Untitled Leather (Chris), 2006

Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen

Mixed Media , 490 x 80 cm

Digital print on leather

This interesting work consists of dots in three colours that are inkjet-prined onto the skin of correspond to details of blood, foam, and the colour of a shirt in a police photograph of a scene of the American comedian Chris Farley's death from an overdose. It's a 6-metre-long work and applies to the idea of dispersion. There is the microscopic aspect and the idea of something that is both reflective and not, because it is reflexive within itself.

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