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.

Pallas Athena, 2008

Mixed Media, 245 x 145 x 90 cm.

©image: Marco Fedele di Catrano

Collection: Collection of Dora Stiefelmeier, Rome.

Jimmie Durham does not believe that works should be illustrative; a sculpture is, for example, not the illustration of a concept. In Durham’s work, over-interpretation and metaphors are not necessary, and the artist invites the spectator to contemplate his piece as it is, investigating its various (often surprising) components.

In Pallas Athena we can perceive the same working process as in other of Jimmie Durham’s figures, except that this time we encounter a familiar element: a mask used by Jimmie in his Self-Portrait Pretending to Be Maria Thereza Alves as Terminator. It is in fact a cast of the artist’s partner, perhaps allowing us to interpret this awkward figure on a wooden stick as an homage to a personal goddess of wisdom.

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>Pallas Athena

>Pallas Athena

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: Animal Skulls and Other Figures.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1994 - 2012.