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.
(c)image: M HKA
The images in *Le Verdict* are inspired by pictures showing colloquia and meetings found in the mythologised villa of the Centre d’Édition Contemporaine in Geneva, for which the work was originally commissioned. Printed on wallpaper and glued directly onto the wall, *Le Verdict* combines historical subject matter with simple images of innocuous details and situations to create an ambiguous narrative where the everyday blends with traces of the past.
