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.

A Piece of Granite Shaped like a Camel's Head, 2006

Sculpture, 36 x 23 x 15 cm.

©image: Edo Kuipers

Collection: Collection Prof. Mr. Egbert J. Dommering, The Netherlands.

Jimmie Durham finds objects and materials and uses them to makes associations, transforming them into something else. The artist’s gesture, like Duchamp’s signature on the urinal (often mentioned by the Durham in his texts), converts these found elements - here a piece of stone whose shape could resemble a camel’s head - into artworks. It is a “kind of human craziness”, describes Durham, ”the phenomenon of things reminding us of, or looking like, other things.”[full text here]

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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.

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - Bestiary. Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, 06 September 2006 - 07 October 2006.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.

> Ensemble: Stone as stone.