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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    Sanguine/Bloedrood. Luc Tuymans on Baroque

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    (c)image: M HKA, Courtesy Carla Arocha - Stéphane Schraenen
    Circa Tabac, 2007
    Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen
    Installation , 1400 x 150 cm (150 x 50 x 34.8 cm)
    mirrors, steel construction

    The constructions of Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen constitute an artistic research within and into the rich tradition of abstract art. Their work exists at a moment of confluence of material and idealistic reality, and of static and mobile environment. From there, a synthesis arises in which both the architecture of the space and the movement of the viewer are involved. This also applies to the installation Circa Tabac from 2007, a triangular floor construction with mirrors, which repeats itself in an endless reflection of its spatial (museum) environment. Everything within the field of view of the installation is shredded, fragmented and reflected. In Sanguine/Bloedrood the installation is set up in the middle of the round room of the M HKA, so that the surrounding portraits of Jordaens and Zurbaràn and the work of Pinsel and Ghekiere endlessly mirror themselves in an ever changing, fragmented constellation.

    Text: Hans Willemse
    Translations: Michael Meert

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