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.

Linea, 1959

Drawing, 333 x 234 mm.

Collection: Private Collection.

Piero Manzoni (1933-1963) is one of the great legends of post-WWII art, not in the least owing to his mastery of the weapon of provocation. The thoroughly unaesthetic oeuvre – from the *Achromes* (white canvases folded and saturated with porcelain clay) to the tinned artist’s excrement and the *Linea*, short or lengthy lines on paper – does away with the annoying and boring mystic discourse which so preoccupied art at that time. He is that happy hooligan who at the start of 1962 answers to G58 that he will gladly take part in their *Anti-peinture* exhibition: ‘For this occasion I would like to make something “moving”, more specifically a “moving shit”, but I don’t know if I still have time enough to finalize it.’ Fortunately he pulled it off, and Manzoni was represented in *Anti-peinture* with *peinture achrome*, *merda d’artista* and *ligne infinie*.

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Artist

> Piero Manzoni.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: LATT: new art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #5 but vision itself. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 December 2012 - 10 February 2013.