Het Geëngageerde [The Engaged]
Ensemble
To some extent, this is code for ‘politically or socially engaged art’. But only to some extent. Activism in art may also imply physical activity as part of an alternative view of the world, or the subversive questioning of prevailing systems without a goal-orientated agenda for actual (or perhaps rather: quantifiable) political or social change. Engagement is a more generic – but also more generous – term, which captures an attitude and a passion that transcends the individual and therefore has tangible connections to ‘the International’.
Some of the works in this ensemble are shown in Antwerp, while others are exhibited in Eindhoven.
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Rynek [Market]
Jozef Robakowski, Rynek [Market], 1970. Film, dvd, 00:05:00.
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Artaud Painting - Un noeu...
Nancy Spero, Artaud Painting - Un noeud d'asphyxie centrale, 1970. Painting, gouache, ink, paper, 62.2 x 49.5 cm.
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Inmensa [Immense]
Cildo Meireles, Inmensa [Immense], 1982. Installation, sapelli whip, 100 x 125 x 163 cm.
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Artaud Painting - That th...
Nancy Spero, Artaud Painting - That thick hemp in the neck of the priest about to be hung, 1969. Painting, gouache, ink, paper, 62.9 x 50.8 cm.
Actors
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Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler (1943, US, lives in New York) combines conceptual art with social critique and political activism. In her installations, collag
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Jozef Robakowski
Józef Robakowski (1939, Poland, lives in Łódź) is one of the pioneers of Polish independent filmmaking. A co-founder of Zero-61 and other gro
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Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (1926–2009, US) is a leading pioneer of feminist art and a member of the group Women Artists’ Revolution. From the 1960s her most
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Robert Indiana
Robert Indiana (1928, US, lives in Maine) is a painter, sculptor and printmaker, associated with Pop Art because of his attention to the rhet
