Ensemble

The concerns articulated in other sub-categories are rarely encountered in pure and unadulterated form. In the art of the 1960s and ‘70s there was constant traffic between lofty, maximalist and utopian ambitions (as can be witnessed in Concretism, Minimalism and Conceptualism) and a fascination (or even obsession) with political, social and economic reality ‘such as it was’ (a driving force behind Pop Art and politically-engaged art alike). Both these approaches, the inward-looking and the outward-looking, were used by artists to form distinctly personal, idiosyncratic agendas, which are almost by definition impure, subverted versions of the more dogmatic beliefs that fuel ‘movements’ in art.

Some of the works in this ensemble are shown in Antwerp, while others are exhibited in Eindhoven.