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.

Silence. The poem is on the ribbon, 1976

Drawing, 110 x 70 cm.

©image: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens

Collection: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens - Donated by the Artist (Inv. no. 785/12).

In the work Silence. The poem is on the ribbon, 1976 a white unwritten paper surface has wear out traces from burning on its edges. The poem which is mentioned in the title of the work is never shown to the viewer, as it is hidden behind the typewriter ribbon which is accumulated at the bottom of the drawing. The poetic composition is written by its creator beyond the borders of the surface of the paper; the reader-viewer can only sense it without reading it. The work Silence which is placed in a transitional phase in Costis’ creation, expresses the dead-end and at the same time the quest of a new poetic language and sensation which will be formatted in the works of visual poetry that the artist will create the following years. The absence of text, the inability to write and read, the attempt of creating and approaching a new textuality are on the nucleus of the artist’s preoccupations.

- Tina Pandi, EMST

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Artist

> Costis.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

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

> Exhibition: Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens, Part III. M HKA, Antwerp, 16 September 2017 - 12 November 2017.

> Ensemble: Poetical License.