Ensemble: Het Transcendente [The Transcendental]
Cross-overs between various levels of reality – dream, vision, utopia – fascinated many artists during the 1960s and ’70s. Their work reveals an uneasiness with the self-assured and universalist position of what we choose to call ‘the Essential’. Instead the artists of the Transcendental – many of whom belonged to the arte povera (‘poor art’) movement in Italy – created works open to interpretation and doubt and critique. These artists address issues that are relevant to humanity as a whole, but they often did so through individual, subjective, even idiosyncratic gestures. Their ideological identification was anti-authoritarian and deliberately open-ended.
Some of the works in this ensemble are shown in Antwerp, while others are exhibited in Eindhoven.
Works
>Guy Mees, Espace Perdu [Lost space], 1964.Sculpture, neon, lace, 124 x 136 x 51 cm.
>Jef Cornelis, James Lee Byars, The World Question Center, 1969.Film, single-channel video, b/w, sound, 01:02:06.
>Jef Cornelis, James Lee Byars, Antwerpen 18 April - 7 Mei 1969, 1969.Video, single-channel video, b/w, sound, 00:32:30.
>herman de vries, V71-70, 1971.Drawing, ink, paper, cardboard, 709 x 980 x 20 mm.
>herman de vries, V71-69, 1971.Drawing, ink, paper, cardboard, 709 x 979 x 20 mm.
>herman de vries, V71-63, 1971.Drawing, ink, paper, cardboard, 712 x 979 mm.
>Marcel Broodthaers, Gedicht/Poem/Poème - Change/Exchange/Wechsel, 1973.Print, ink, cardboard, 2 x (102.1 x 72.4 cm).
>Marcel Broodthaers, Tapis de sable, 1974.Installation, quartz sand, pigments, palmtree in pot, printed terry cloth, 337 x 220 cm, 198 x 160 x 60 cm, 107 x 52.4 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Zonder titel [Untitled], 1974-1975.Drawing, paper, 42.1 x 33.1 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Untitled, 1976.Drawing, paper, 35,7 x 29,9 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Untitled, 1976.Drawing, paper, 35,7 x 29,9 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Untitled, 1976.Drawing, paper, 35.7 x 29.9 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Untitled, 1976.Drawing, paper, 35,7 x 29,9 cm.
>James Lee Byars, The Shadow of an Extraterrestrial Man/The Antwerp Giant, 1976.Installation, black tulle, 17 x 245 m.
>James Lee Byars, Hear TH FI TO IN PH Around This Chair, 1977.Installation, chair, carpets, black silk tent, 357 x 355 x 366 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Untitled, 1978-1979.Drawing, paper, 35,7 x 26,9 cm.
>Michelangelo Pistoletto, Divisione e moltiplicazine dello specchio [Division and Multiplication of the Mirror], 1978.Sculpture, wood, goldpaint, mirror, 2 x (100 x 45 cm).
>Luciano Fabro, Arcobaleno [Rainbow], 1980.Installation, acrylic, cotton wool, variable dimensions.
>James Lee Byars, Moonbook (Stonebooks), 1980.Installation, artist book, sandstone in display case, 3.7 x 41.3 x 29.4 cm, 175.5 x 146 x 46 cm.
>René Heyvaert, Zonder titel (Broodkruis) [Untitled (Bread Cross)], 1981.Sculpture, bread, wood, 118 x 118 x 4 cm.
>Alighiero Boetti, I Quattro moli [The Four Piers], 1982.Drawing, pencil, ink, paper, canvas, 4 x (75.2 x 71.6 x 2.7 cm).