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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    Tobias Rehberger

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    °1966
    Works in Berlin, DE
    Lives in Frankfurt, DE
    Born in Esslingen am Neckar, DE

    The multidisciplinary German artist Tobias Rehberger (b. 1966) reinterprets spaces – both museum and public spaces – by means of geometric objects, recurring colour patterns and planes of shadow and light. His conceptual oeuvre is a combination of architecture, design and video art.  Using recurring geometric motifs and optical illusions, he not only decorates buildings and interiors, but also objects, wall papers and design furniture. Through his constant exploration of the boundary between the public and the private space – primarily by emphasising it – the artist shows the impact of a personal intervention. Or the other way around: he shows how an artistic addition can become public property. In the same way, he also seeks to erase the boundaries of authorship and copyright. Rehberger regards all culture as public property, and uses it to undermine its own so-called specificity. Its use becomes pointless, but the shape of the object acquires an artistic autonomy that refers to existing objects. The play of shadow and light around the object is created by means of film images that are projected on the wall. The reflection of the moving images brings together the formal and the artificial in a consistent formal language.

    Text: Hans Willemse
    Translations: Michael Meert

    Items

    Kopfverluste, 2002

    Tobias Rehberger
    81 Years, 2002

    Tobias Rehberger
    Joan Crawford Slapping Library, 2000

    Tobias Rehberger
    Monsters Triumphing Library, 2000

    Tobias Rehberger
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