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.

Action: The Man Measuring the Clouds, 1997-2000

Performance, various.

©Angelos bvba

Different locations
Duration: various 

In homage to his dead twin brother Emile Fabre, the artist attempts to measure the immeasurable: the clouds. This action, which led to the famous bronze sculpture, is based on a quote from the prisoner and ornithologist Robert Stroud after his release: ‘I’m going to measure the clouds’.

 

'I'm in a poetic hell!
Today I installed a new work in a window display
box in Offerandestraat (the only-free pedestrian
shopping street in Antwerp, masses of pf people pass
along it).
I modelled a little man measuring the clouds, in clay.
And above him hang clouds of expanded
polystyrene.
I painted it all light grey-blue.
It is an offering, a tribute,
to my dead brother, Emile Fabre'

(Jan Fabre, Antwerp, 3 December 1978)

 

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Artist

> Jan Fabre.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jan Fabre – Stigmata, Actions & Performances 1976-2013. M HKA, Antwerpen, 24 April 2015 - 26 July 2015.

> Ensemble: Wetenschap & Experiment [Science & Experiment].

Related Items

>Jan Fabre, The Man Measuring the Clouds (Model for the roof of deSingel and the S.M.A.K.) , 1998.Prototype, wood, textile, wax, stone, clay and cement, 25 x 20.5 x 20 com .

>Jan Fabre, The Man Measuring the Clouds, 1998.Drawing, hb pencil on paper, 29.5 x 21 cm.