M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

John Baldessari

©image: Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

1931 - 2020

Born in National City (US), born in Hong Kong (CN).

[John Baldessari](http://www.baldessari.org/) (1931, US, lives in Los Angeles) seeks to reconcile his city’s surf-and-sex aesthetic with New York conceptualism. Joseph Kossuth famously dismisses his work as ‘“conceptual” cartoons of actual conceptual art’, and he answeres with the now-classic video John Baldessari Sings Sol LeWitt. Baldessari typically tries out ideas in various permutations and makes them reappear at various stages in his oeuvre. He has invested much energy into visualising the somehow self-evident but still inexplicable, almost mysterious mechanisms behind the Duchampian notion of ‘choosing’: ‘I love the idea of doing just gratuitous things, in a world of things for use.’

Works

>John Baldessari, Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972.Video, 00:15:00.

>John Baldessari, Throwing 3 Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line (Best of 36 attempts), 1973.Print, ink, paper, 14 x ( 22.8 x 33 cm).

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: EXTRA MUROS: Museum of Affects — In the Framework of L'Internationale. 26 November 2011 - 29 January 2012.

> Exhibition: The collection XXIX — Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956-1986. 20 January 2012 - 29 April 2012.

> Ensemble: Het Essentiële [The Essential].

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