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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Joris Ghekiere

(c)image: M HKA
Zonder titel [Untitled], 2007
Painting , 116 x 146 x 3.5 cm

In Untitled (2007), the alienation effect is reinforced by the radical choice of a negative image. Green becomes reddish purple. White becomes black, dark becomes light and vice versa. Counter-images such as this one bring the viewer out of balance. This is no one-dimensional or static picture of the actual.