Sanguine / Bloedrood

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    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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    Sigmar Polke

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    (c)image: Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven / Peter Cox
    Höhere Wesen Befahlen: rechte obere Ecke schwartz malen!, 1969
    Sigmar Polke
    Painting , 151.3 x 126.1 cm
    synthetic paint, canvas

    Sigmar Polke creates paintings with a nod to current ideas about the origins of artistic inspiration. What is divine, is decided in the human psyche, or is it located in the chemistry of the human body? Polke thinks that when he paints on the canvas creates a relationship of forces which he can not control and that the painting his own destiny. 'Höhere Wesen befahlen...' is primarily an ironic reference to the German romantic tradition in which the 'higher' plays an important role.

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