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.

>Jimmie Durham

Eleven Stone Parts, 1998

Sculpture, variable dimensions.

©image: Marco Fedele di Catrano

Collection: Collection of Dora Stiefelmeier, Rome.

Eleven Stone Parts is a piece first made for the group exhibition Indoor in the Serre di Rapolano in Italy. The stones presented side-by-side are in fact - or so we’re told by the text Durham has placed next to it - the product of a petrification process. Their labeling gives meaning to their form: they are pieces of petrified food: salami, pancetta, pecorino, mortadella, as well as sugar cubes and a melon.

One part of this setting is presented at the exhibition A Matter of life and Death and Singing, namely a marble case with a lid that can only be opened for 15 seconds at a time. Like in the installation Rocks Encouraged, the artist’s instructions impose concentration and complicity between the viewer and the material.

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Media

>Eleven Stone Parts

>detail: marble case

Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham – A Matter of Life and Death and Singing. M HKA, Antwerpen, 25 May 2012 - 18 November 2012.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.

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