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.

Sculpture for Public Participation – Participation Prohibited, 1970-2005

Epreuve, 2 x (160 x 100 cm).

©image: Giannis Vastardis, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens

Collection: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens - Donated by the Artist (Inv. no. 576/07).

The series Manipulations begins in October 1970 with the exhibition – event titled Sculpture for public participation – PARTICIPATION PROHIBITED, at the Goethe Institute in Athens and continues, in numbered variations, taking the form of exhibitions and performances, until 1983.  

Manipulations are an important milestone in the evolutionary process of Theodoro’s multidimensional work as, besides everything else, they signal a special change: the passage from the clearly manual and sculptural phase of his work to a second period which could be characterized as a more intellectual one. Theoodoros of course never stopped considering himself a sculptor, attributing to sculpture through the Manipulations –and other works too- a dimension with multiple meanings. In the case of the works presented in this exhibition (Manipulations I and Manipulations III) for example, “ the vinyl records as works of sculpture, rely on the concept that sculpture as communication functions through the formation of the materials with different instruments – tools. At this present process the sound of voice carves the vinyl material, through which the sound vibrations that we hear from the playback equipment are being generated as the artist himself explains.

An important issue that the artist deals with in the Manipulations is the communication with the audience through sculpture and generally through art. Sculpture is being juxtaposed to the mass communication media, e.g. text, oral speech, image, sound and acting, with the intention to explore expressive correlations and differences between those two communication codes. The work itself is being treated as an “open aesthetical object” and is being deconstructed as an art object. Manipulations are a comment on art itself, its social function and commercialization, the artist’s role, the prevailing perceptions on art etc.

 

Eleni Ganiti, EMST

 

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Expositions & Ensembles

> Exposition: Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp. National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (EMST), Athens, 31 October 2016 - 05 February 2017.

> Ensemble: Recalibrating the Public's Image.