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.

>Maarten Vanden Abeele

Oktober: Brussel [October: Brussels], 1998

Photography

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. M00055).

Oktober: Brussel is a suite, a sequence of images of a couple, naked in bed. The man is aware of the camera’s presence and he looks straight at the lens. The woman keeps her distance. She turns her back to the camera and her face is never visible. The work is an intimate portrait of this couple, the sediment of a moment that is preserved, as a whole, as a cluster. At the same time, this portrait series is colored by the photographer’s eye. It is his look at this scene. The tension between the images’ intimacy and the ‘public access’ of the photographs is tangible. The work is also a color study of the bedroom’s warm coloration. Robert Frank described photography as ‘painting with light’. The woman’s pose also harks back to classical painting: it evokes associations with the myriad of painted recumbent female nudes.

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> Maarten Vanden Abeele.

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> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.

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> Ensemble: Theatrics.

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