Het Concrete [The Concrete]
Ensemble
The Concrete brings together ‘optical’ and ‘kinetic’ works created in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The works are based on tangible materials and structures and relate to our physical and sensorial existence. But they differ from the more familiar abstract art of Late Modernism – not least the American Abstract Expressionist painters (Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Cy Twombly and others), for whom abstraction is often a form of ‘representation’ of the unrepresentable. By contrast, the Concrete becomes a ‘tool’ for intervening in the real (material, social, political) world by exposing and thereby changing its materiality.
Some of the works in this ensemble are shown in Antwerp, while others are exhibited in Eindhoven.
Items
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Tavole di accertamento
Piero Manzoni, Tavole di accertamento, 1958-1960. Print, ink, paper, 8 x (572 x 472 mm).
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Hay, Cornhusks, Bricks
Tomaž Šalamun, Hay, Cornhusks, Bricks, 1969. Photography.
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Album plura Edizione
François Morellet, Album plura Edizione. Painting.
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Monochrome bleu, sans tit...
Yves Klein, Monochrome bleu, sans titre [Blue Monochrome, Untitled], 1959. Painting, pigment, synthetic resin, canvas, wood, 92.4 x 73.7 x 2.6 cm.
Actors
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Tomaž Šalamun
Tomaž Šalamun (1941, Slovenia, lives in Ljubljana) is considered the leading contemporary poet in Slovene, and he has been translated into m
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Henk Peeters
Henk Peeters (1925, the Netherlands, lives in Hall) abandoned a figurative, socially-engaged style of painting for an informal, material-base
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Lucio Fontana
The Argentine-Italian visual artist Lucio Fontana (1899-1968) has broadened and deepened the avant-garde of the mid-twentieth century with ne
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Yves Klein
The Yves Klein of 1959 already had an extreme reputation on the art scene. He had swept the table clear of arguments about form and color wit