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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    ©Marcel Gautherot / Instituto Moreira Salles Collection
    Prophet Jonah, 1947
    Marcel Gautherot
    Photography , 34 x 34 cm
    ink on paper

    During the 1950s, Marcel Gautherot captures the spectacular construction of the rising metropolis – designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer. Eventually he will spend most of his life in Brazil, where he mainly focuses on photographing architecture and ethnography. During the first year of his stay in Brazil, Gautherot made a remarkable series of documentary detail photographs – always from a special angle and with emphatic contrasts – of the baroque sculptures produced by Antônio Francisco Lisboa "Aleijadinho", a Brazilian mulatto sculptor from the 18th century. Luc Tuymans points to the colonial aspect of this sculptural art, which makes clear how much the Baroque expanded in space and time, as recorded by Gautherot.

    Text: Hans Willemse
    Translations: Michael Meert

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