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The camera carefully follows the man, tracing his every move as if it were a news report. Here, De Gruyter and Thys make references to documentary conventions and styles, but this is not reality: the production remains carefully staged.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDe Bom\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;volgen Jos De Gruyter en Harald Thys een man terwijl deze een bom in zijn tuin maakt. Uiteindelijk laat hij de bom ook afgaan. De camera houdt de man nauwgezet in de gaten en volgt al zijn bewegingen, als in een nieuwsreportage. Hier verwijzen De Gruyter en Thys naar conventies en stijlen van de documentaire, maar dit is geen realiteit: de productie is nog steeds zorgvuldig ge\u0026euml;nsceneerd.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":4235,"title":"Der Schlamm Von Branst","dimensions":"00:20:00","date_begin":"2008-01-01","material":"video","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artists, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Private Collection","cached_tag_list":"sound, color","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":25,"permalink":"der-schlamm-von-branst","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/007/795/large/de-Gruyter-Thys-der-schlamm-von-branst.jpg?1332158400","poster_credits":"(c)Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"*Der Schlamm von Branst* takes place within the mundane confines of an activity center where a cast of characters are spending their time making clay sculptures. The sculptures, which could be considered here as manifestations from the depths of male sublimation, are attempts to create representations of such things as a horse’s head, the human body, and human faces, all of which appear amateurish and mildly phallic. Like other works by de Gruyter \u0026 Thys, strange ghostly masculine apparitions occur, bringing the parallel world into simultaneous view with reality. Again, the scenario operates on a level that is pre-verbal, and a single woman sits whimpering, holding a block of clay to her stomach."},{"locale":"nl","description":"*Der Schlamm von Branst* vindt plaats binnen de alledaagse grenzen van een activiteitencentrum, waar een aantal personages hun tijd besteden met het maken van kleisculpturen. De beelden kunnen beschouwd worden als manifestaties uit de diepten van de mannelijke sublimatie. Het zijn pogingen om dingen af te beelden zoals een paardenkop, het menselijk lichaam en mensenhoofden. In de weergave zien ze er allemaal amateuristisch en lichtjes fallisch uit. Opnieuw werkt het scenario op een pre-verbaal niveau; een enkele vrouw zit te jammeren, waarbij ze een blok klei tegen haar buik houdt."},{"locale":"fr","description":"*Der Schlamm von Branst* se déroule dans le cadre banal d’un centre d’activités ou quelques personnages passent leur temps à réaliser des sculptures en terre glaise que l’on pourrait considérer comme des manifestations provenant des profondeurs de la sublimation masculine. Ces tentatives de représentation d’une tête de cheval, d’un corps et de têtes humaines témoignent d’un amateurisme certain et d’une connotation plutôt phallique. Une fois de plus, le scénario opère à un niveau préverbal. Une seule femme est assise et pleurniche, tenant un bloc de terre glaise sur son ventre."}]},{"id":4234,"title":"Das Loch [The Hole]","dimensions":"00:27:00","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artists, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi","cached_tag_list":"sound, color","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":34,"permalink":"das-loch-the-hole","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/009/717/large/De_Gruyter___Thys_Das_Loch.jpg?1340281187","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"In their most recent works such as *Das Loch*, de Gruyter \u0026 Thys have replaced actors with mannequins that have limited features, inhuman computerised voices and a certain emptiness at their core. *Das Loch* describes the complex rivalry that exists between two characters – Johannes, who believes in the universal expression of painting, and Fritz, a little red macho-man in possession of an HD camera. Johannes's empathic wife Hildegard, in a role that reduces her to the female stereotype from film history, acts as the linchpin for her husband’s emotions. Within the *OPTIMUNDUS* exhibition, the characters present from this work are Fritz wearing his sunglasses behind a fence, Hildegard, Ricco \u0026 Rocco, Tommy The Singing Trumpet, and Johannes amongst an expansive display of his paintings."},{"locale":"nl","description":"In hun meest recente werken, zoals *Das Loch*, hebben de Gruyter en Thys de acteurs vervangen door poppen met beperkte functies, onmenselijke computerstemmen en een zekere leegte in hun kern. *Das Loch* beschrijft de complexe rivaliteit tussen twee personages, Johannes, die gelooft in de universele expressie van de schilderkunst en Fritz, een kleine rode macho in het bezit van een HD-camera. Johannes’ empathische vrouw Hildegard, in een rol die haar reduceert tot het vrouwelijke stereotype uit de filmgeschiedenis, fungeert als spil voor de emoties van haar man. Een aantal figuren uit de video worden in *OPTIMUNDUS* ook als poppen getoond. Het zijn met name Fritz, Hildegard, Ricco \u0026 Rocco, Tommy The Singing Trumpet en Johannes, omringd door een uitgebreide tentoonstelling van zijn schilderijen."},{"locale":"fr","description":"Dans leurs œuvres récentes, comme *Das Loch*, De Gruyter \u0026 Thys ont remplacé les acteurs par des marionnettes assez sommaires, aux fonctions très limitées, aux voix synthétiques d’ordinateur et dont se dégage une certaine vacuité. *Das Loch* décrit la rivalité complexe entre deux personnages : Johannes qui a foi en l’expression universelle de l’art pictural, et Fritz, un petit macho rouge doté d’une caméra vidéo haute définition. Hildegard, l’épouse empathique de Johannes, réduite au rôle féminin stéréotype dans l’histoire du cinéma, sert de pivot aux émotions de son mari. Un certain nombre de personnages de la vidéo sont exposés dans *OPTIMUNDUS*, à savoir Fritz, Hildegard, Ricco \u0026 Rocco, Tommy la Trompette chantante, et Johannes, entouré d’une vaste exposition de ses toiles."}]},{"id":4244,"title":"ROTV1 Keizer Ro [Emperor Ro]","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"exhibition","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"An exhibition consisting of the emperor's correspondences, desk, dangerous weapons, cable television network consisting of a joke channel, a war channel and a teletext channel) as well as items from his personal history: teddy bear, photographs and some strange objects.","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"rotv1-keizer-ro-emperor-ro","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/007/822/large/Keizer%20Ro%201.jpg?1332164142","poster_credits":"(c)Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"...from the installation Emperor Ro - the war channel."},{"locale":"nl","description":"...uit de installatie Keizer Ro - het oorlogskanaal."},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":6121,"title":"Les énigmes de Saarlouis [The Riddles of Saarlouis]","dimensions":"00:18:00","date_begin":"2012-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artists, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Private Collection","cached_tag_list":"16:9","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"Language: French\r\nSubtitles: English","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":21,"permalink":"les-enigmes-de-saarlouis-the-riddles-of-saarlouis","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/012/986/large/Video_still_2.jpg?1350891585","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"Language: French\r\nSubtitles: English\r\n\r\nUsing computerised voices speaking French, the twin characters in this video, [Kitty \u0026 Katty](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/6222), present us with a series of enigmatic riddles. In fact they are so complicated that they are near impossible to decipher. Referencing the German town of Saarlouis near the French border, built originally as a fortress after the Franco-Dutch War of 1672-78, this work is one of their most recent videos, and is made entirely using simply constructed mannequins and a series of hypnotic, slow-moving camera shots."},{"locale":"nl","description":"Taal: Frans\r\nOndertiteling: Engels\r\n\r\nMet geautomatiseerde stemmen presenteert de tweeling [Kitty \u0026 Katty](http://ensembles.mhka.be/items/6222), de personages in deze video, ons een reeks raadsels. In feite zijn de raadsels zo ingewikkeld dat het quasi onmogelijk is om ze te ontcijferen. Het werk verwijst naar de Duitse stad Saarlouis, nabij de Franse grens. Deze film bestaat uit reeks hypnotische, langzame camerashots van eenvoudig geconstrueerde poppen. 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Dans cette vidéo récente, on aperçoit uniquement des marionnettes de confection sommaire et une série de prises de vue lentes et hypnotiques."}]},{"id":6124,"title":"Het Fregat [The Frigate]","dimensions":"00:19:00","date_begin":"2009-01-01","material":"single channel HD video","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection Museum van Elsene, Elsene","cached_tag_list":"mono sound","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":22,"permalink":"het-fregat-the-frigate","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/014/337/large/images.jpg?1360180894","poster_credits":"(c)Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"*The Frigate* is a video set within a community center in which a group of men, a woman and a cameraman are involved in a peculiar scenario revolving around a model of a black ship. The communication between the men and the woman is entirely non-verbal, creating a series of silent tableaux. A Freudian symbol of the female sexuality that men desire, the ship causes the male characters to behave perversely around the woman, forcing her to engage in poses that resemble those seen in pornographic films. In front of the cameraman, their posturing is disembodied and awkward. Perhaps read as a comment on the normalization of hetero-normative gender roles, *The Frigate* considers the violent and dehumanised body in mass media. Also shown in the exhibition is the main prop in the video, the model ship, as well as a series of photographs of its different profiles. \r\n\r\nThe organ music soundtrack is by Eric Thys who also appears in the video (and is available to purchase as a vinyl record at the M HKAshop)."},{"locale":"nl","description":"Zoals in de twee voorgaande films speelt *The Frigate* zich af in een buurthuis waar een groep mannen, een vrouw en een cameraman betrokken zijn bij een vreemd scenario, dat draait rond het model van een zwart schip. De communicatie tussen de mannen en de vrouw is volledig non-verbaal en creëert zo een reeks stille tableaus. Het schip is een freudiaans symbool van de vrouwelijke seksualiteit waar mannen naar verlangen. Het zorgt ervoor dat de mannelijke personages zich rondom de vrouw pervers gedragen, waarbij ze haar dwingen te participeren in poses die lijken op houdingen uit pornografische films. Tegenover de cameraman komen ze als wezenloos voor. We kunnen *The Frigate* misschien lezen als een commentaar op de normalisering van hetero-normatieve genderrollen. Tegelijk is de film een reflectie op het gewelddadige en ontmenselijkte lichaam in de massamedia.\r\n\r\nDe orgelmuziek van de soundtrack werd gemaakt door Erik Thys, die ook een rol speelt in de video. Ze is als vinylplaat te koop in de M HKA-shop. "},{"locale":"fr","description":"Comme dans les autres films, *The Frigate* se déroule dans un centre communautaire où un groupe d’hommes, une femme et un cameraman sont impliqués dans un scénario bizarre autour d’une maquette de bateau noir. Entre les hommes et la femme, la communication est strictement non verbale et donne lieu à une série de tableaux muets. Symbole freudien de la sexualité féminine et du désir masculin, le bateau provoque chez les hommes un comportement pervers envers la femme, qu’ils forcent à prendre des poses dignes de films pornographiques. Face à la caméra, ils paraissent hébétés. On pourrait lire *The Frigate* comme un commentaire sur la codification hétéronormée des rôles liés au genre. Il s’agit par ailleurs d’une réflexion sur le corps violent et déshumanisé tel qu’il apparaît dans les médias de masse. \r\n\r\nLa bande-son est une composition pour orgue d’Erik Thys. Ce dernier apparaît également dans la vidéo. 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English\r\n\r\nThe opening scene in *Ten Weyngaert* is set within a typical location in de Gruyter \u0026 Thys’s videos: a starkly lit, bare, impersonal interior, where nine people stand silently in a row, waiting to be killed by gun fire. \r\n\r\nThe inspiration for *Ten Weyngaert* is the eponymous community center in Brussels, originally planned as a utopian space where citizens could participate in activities as a way to exercise their imagination and develop their creativity. Today it is mostly visited by tormented people and even has the effect of isolating people from public life. The actors do not speak but mutter and laugh as if possessed. The only voice herd is of the paternal narrator telling the story of a man who is aroused by the bites of his black ferret from Belarus. Everybody is nameless except for Tim \u0026 Tom, two guards that the residents harass. The scenes are interspersed with otherworldly scenes in a non-descript dark space where a strange game takes place. \r\n\r\nTen Weyngaert ends with a scene similar to the initial one, but the striking difference is that the characters have disappeared, perhaps after having escaped this environment. 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Iedereen is naamloos, behalve Tim \u0026 Tom, twee bewakers die iedereen lastiggevallen. De scènes worden afgewisseld met bovennatuurlijke taferelen in een onbestemde donkere ruimte waarin zich een vreemd spel afspeelt. \r\n\r\n*Ten Weyngaert* eindigt met een scène die lijkt op de aanvangsscène, met dit opvallende verschil dat de personages verdwenen zijn. "},{"locale":"fr","description":"La scène d’ouverture de *Ten Weyngaert* se déroule dans un décor typique des vidéos de De Gruyter et Thys : un intérieur dépouillé, impersonnel, éclairé par une lumière crue, dans lequel sont alignées neuf personnes, attendant en silence d’être abattues par une arme à feu. \r\n\r\nL’inspiration de l’œuvre est le centre communautaire éponyme à Bruxelles, initialement un projet utopique où les citoyens allaient pouvoir participer à des activités en vue d’exercer leur imagination et de développer leur créativité. Aujourd’hui, le lieu est surtout fréquenté par des personnes tourmentées et a même pour effet de les isoler de la vie publique.\r\nLes acteurs ne parlent pas, mais marmonnent et rient comme des possédés. La seule voix qui résonne est celle du narrateur au ton paternel, qui raconte l’histoire d’un homme émoustillé par le fait d’écraser de ses mains des souris noires de Biélorussie. Personne n’a de nom, sauf Tim \u0026 Tom, deux gardiens qui importunent tout le monde. Les scènes alternent avec des séquences surréelles dans un espace obscur non défini, où a lieu un jeu étrange. \r\n\r\n*Ten Weyngaert* s’achève comme il commence, à la différence près que les personnages ont disparu.\r\n"}]},{"id":6133,"title":"About the Relationship Between the Real World and the Parallel World","dimensions":"00:30:00","date_begin":"2010-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artists, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003e4:3\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":29,"permalink":"about-the-relationship-between-the-real-world-and-the-parallel-world","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Thys","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/014/366/large/Jos_de_Gruyter___Harald_Thys_About_the_Relationship_Between_the_Real_World_and_the_Parallel_World_2010___photo_M_HKAcc3.JPG?1360252839","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003eLanguage: Dutch Subtitles: English Occasionally presented by the artist as a lecture, the video About the Relationship Between the Real World and the Parallel World is the pseudo-scientific explanation de Gruyter \u0026amp; Thys give for the existence of the parallel world. Narrated through the voice of Thys\u0026rsquo;s father, the artists tell us the parallel world disguises itself as the real world \u0026ndash; \u0026ldquo;There are different theories. One of them states that the parallel world is a mirror of the real world and every attack from the parallel world would therefore be a form of self-destruction.\u0026rdquo; The existence of the parallel world within the everyday is illustrated using clips from various sources inserted within the video. This work effectively describes a sort of existential crisis for humanity at the heart of what we understand as reality, and a desire for it to be replaced by an alternative.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003eTaal: Nederlands Ondertiteling: Engels De Gruyter en Thys presenteren de video *About the Relationship Between the Real World and the Parallel World* af en toe in de vorm van een lezing. De kunstenaars geven een pseudowetenschappelijke verklaring voor het bestaan van een parallelle wereld. Via een computerstem vertellen de Gruyter en Thys ons dat de parallelle wereld zich vermomt als de echte wereld. Het bestaan van de parallelle wereld in de alledaagse wereld wordt ge\u0026iuml;llustreerd met behulp van fragmenten uit verschillende films. Dit werk beschrijft een soort existenti\u0026euml;le crisis van de mensheid, in het hart van wat wij zien als de werkelijkheid, en een verlangen om die laatste door een alternatief te vervangen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":"\u003cp\u003eParfois pr\u0026eacute;sent\u0026eacute;e par les artistes sous forme de conf\u0026eacute;rence, la vid\u0026eacute;o *About the Relationship Between the Real World and the Parallel World* est l\u0026rsquo;explication pseudo-scientifique que De Gruyter et Thys donnent \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;existence du monde parall\u0026egrave;le. Les artistes nous racontent, par le biais d\u0026rsquo;une voix synth\u0026eacute;tis\u0026eacute;e, que le monde parall\u0026egrave;le se camoufle et se fait passer pour le monde r\u0026eacute;el. L\u0026rsquo;existence du monde parall\u0026egrave;le au quotidien s\u0026rsquo;illustre au moyen de divers extraits films ins\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute;s dans la vid\u0026eacute;o. 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Three heads look from up high, and each faces a different direction. The “Wise-Noses” observe visitors and return the glances of onlookers, and the sound of running water is one of the few things visitors will hear in the exhibition. The fountain focuses our attention towards the acts of looking or staring –important characteristics in the work of de Gruyter and Thys."},{"locale":"nl","description":"Dit beeld is een variatie op [*De drie wijsneuzen van Erembodegem*](http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/the_vault_original/000/014/200/original/WIJSNEUZEN.pdf?1360056874), een voorstel voor een sculptuur op een rotonde in de Vlaamse gemeente Erembodegem. Drie koppen kijken vanuit de hoogte, elk blikt in een andere richting. De 'wijsneuzen' observeren de bezoeker en beantwoorden de blik van de toeschouwer. Het geluid van stromend water is een van de weinige dingen die op de tentoonstelling te horen is. 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La fontaine attire notre attention sur le fait de regarder ou contempler – une caractéristique importante dans l’œuvre de De Gruyter et Thys."}]},{"id":6470,"title":"De Droom van Klottemans","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2013-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artists, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Galerie Micheline 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The video stars a young Thys – all gangly limbs in a white vest and underwear – imitating gymnastic exercises to hokey Europop songs in the school’s video studio. He marches, pretends to swim, and performs graceless acrobatics, anemic goose steps, and stiff-legged kicks that are as funny as they are sad sack, his movements reminiscent of the disarming flails of Taylor Mead, Warhol superstar cum court jester. Thys then parades around carrying unidentified objects that belong to the ex-priest who runs the school’s video studio, and who hides his pornography there. The young artist ends his show by enthusiastically mouthing the lyrics to one of the songs (\"Big city!/Big, big city!\") out of time with the recording. Bumbling and puckish, Thys performs a kind of failed fascism – of the body, of art education, of religion – as well as a playful, if pointed, interrogation of the space in which art is made.*\r\n\r\n(source: Jennifer Krasinski)"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":6562,"title":"De pot [The Bucket]","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2001-01-01","material":"00:18:00","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":21,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":3,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"de-pot-the-bucket","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/014/334/large/The_Bucket.jpg?1360180548","poster_credits":"(c)Jos De Gruyter \u0026 Harald Theys","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"The most part of the videos of de Gruyter \u0026 Thys start from trivial and almost corny situations and actions: a discussion between a man and a woman, who are trying to embellish their house as in *The Bucket*. This extremely familiar situation and fictitious observations are disrupted time and again by the artists. To this purpose the duo makes use of a series of techniques which they have derived from the dramaturgical jargon of theatre and TV-shows for children. "},{"locale":"nl","description":"Het grootste deel van de video's van de Gruyter \u0026 Thys starten vanuit triviale en bijna oubollige situaties en handelingen: een discussie tussen een man en een vrouw, die proberen om hun huis te versieren zoals hier in *De Pot*. Deze uiterst herkenbare situatie en fictieve observaties worden keer op keer verstoord door de kunstenaars. 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Harald Thys\u0026rsquo; series of drawings titled \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e which refer to the pioneering modernist artistic movement founded in Russia by Kazimir Malevic in the early 20\u003csup\u003eth\u003c/sup\u003e Century, that rejected figurative representation in order to move towards the sensations of pure colour and abstract forms. Malevic stated: \u0026ldquo;In the year 1913, trying desperately to free art from the dead weight of the real world, I took refuge in the form of the square\u0026rdquo;. De Gruyter \u0026amp; Thys\u0026rsquo; drawings also appropriate the square, and populate it with configurations repeating the basic form of their \u003cem\u003eWhite Element\u003c/em\u003e series of sculptures \u0026ndash;\u0026nbsp;flat white sheet-metal sculptures in simple humanoid shape. The repetition, in one sense, forms modernist geometric compositions, but also introduces the human figure, rejected by the original practitioners of Suprematism. The simple flatness and repetition of white figures, indicate a homogeneous group, with no deviation. With the title \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e curiously rhyming with \u0026ldquo;white supremacism\u0026rdquo;, it is suggestive of ideologies built on racial superiority. Modernism, despite its supposed universality, has been considered by some thinkers as an expression of white European identity. De Gruyter \u0026amp; Thys\u0026rsquo; \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e hold a mirror of stark reflection this expression.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eDe titel van de tekeningenreeks \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e van Jos de Gruyter en Harald Thys verwijst naar het suprematisme, de baanbrekende modernistische artistieke beweging die in het begin van de twintigste eeuw door Kazimir Malevitsj in Rusland werd opgericht en die figuratieve representatie afwees, om te evolueren naar de sensaties van pure kleur en abstracte vormen. Malevitsj verklaarde: \u0026ldquo;In het jaar 1913 probeerde ik wanhopig de vrije kunst te bevrijden van het dode gewicht van de echte wereld, en vluchtte ik in de vierkante vorm.\u0026rdquo; De tekeningen van De Gruyter en Thys gebruiken eveneens vierkanten en bevolken die met getekende portretten van mensen. De configuraties herhalen de basisvorm van hun sculptuurreeks \u003cem\u003eWhite Element\u003c/em\u003e, namelijk een witte, vlakke plaatmetaal-sculptuur met een ultra-gereduceerde menselijke vorm. In zekere zin leidt de herhaling van witte vierkanten tot modernistisch-geometrische composities, maar tegelijk wordt de menselijke figuur ge\u0026iuml;ntroduceerd, die precies werd afgewezen door de oorspronkelijke beoefenaars van het suprematisme. De simpele vlakheid en herhaling van witte figuren duidt op een homogene groep die geen afwijkingen toelaat. Met de titel \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e, wat erg lijkt op \u0026#39;white supremacism\u0026#39;, de ideologie die stelt dat \u0026lsquo;blanken\u0026rsquo; superieur zijn aan zwarten, evoceert het werk ideologie\u0026euml;n die steunen op theorie\u0026euml;n van raciale superioriteit. Ondanks zijn vermeende universaliteit wordt het modernisme door sommige denkers beschouwd als een uitdrukking van witte Europese identiteit. \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e houdt zulke rassentheorie\u0026euml;n een grimmige spiegel voor.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"\u003eS\u0026eacute;rie de dessins de Jos de Gruyter et d\u0026#39;Harald Thys intitul\u0026eacute;e \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e, qui fait r\u0026eacute;f\u0026eacute;rence au mouvement artistique moderniste pionnier fond\u0026eacute; en Russie par Kazimir Malevic au d\u0026eacute;but du 20\u003csup\u003ee\u003c/sup\u003e si\u0026egrave;cle. Ce mouvement rejetait la repr\u0026eacute;sentation figurative pour aller vers les sensations de couleur pure et de formes abstraites. 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La plan\u0026eacute;it\u0026eacute; simple et la r\u0026eacute;p\u0026eacute;tition des figures blanches indiquent un groupe homog\u0026egrave;ne, sans d\u0026eacute;viation. Avec le titre \u003cem\u003eWhite Suprematism\u003c/em\u003e rimant curieusement avec \u0026laquo; supr\u0026eacute;macisme blanc\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo;, le mouvement \u0026eacute;voque des id\u0026eacute;ologies fond\u0026eacute;es sur la sup\u0026eacute;riorit\u0026eacute; raciale. Le modernisme, malgr\u0026eacute; son universalit\u0026eacute; suppos\u0026eacute;e, a \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; consid\u0026eacute;r\u0026eacute; par certains penseurs comme une expression de l\u0026#39;identit\u0026eacute; europ\u0026eacute;enne blanche. 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