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

©Courtesy of the artist
Container 1, 2007
Painting , 100 x 100 cm
oil on canvas

The buckets - Container I and II - play with the contradictions between content and emptiness, inside versus outside.

Text: Hans Willemse
Translations: Michael Meert