{"id":2707,"title":"Attributen en Substantie","date_begin":"1994-12-15T00:00:00.000+01:00","date_end":"1995-01-07T00:00:00.000+01:00","location":{"readable":"Amsterdam","latitude":null,"longitude":null},"assets":{"poster":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/022/large/1993_attributen_substantie.0x480.jpg?1488978205","poster_credits":"(c)image: AMVK"},"translations":[{"locale":"en","name":"Attributen en Substantie","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;This work was first exhibited as part of the installation \u0026quot;Attributen en Substantie\u0026quot; (Attributes and Substance) in Amsterdam in 1995. However, it is a work in its own right and it also has the same name separately.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe engraving on a fluorescent Plexiglas plate is an enlargement of a drawing that I made on a lunch break when I was a drawing teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. It depicts the rickety, improvised platform on which the nude model was supposed to pose during my classes.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOn the yellow fragment of Plexiglas, there is an interior with a plus sign and minus sign in it. It depicts the ambiguous impact that a space has on what takes place within it.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe blue pieces of Plexiglas separately display the top and bottom of a masked female figure, the top with the text: \u0026quot;shape and control\u0026quot;, the bottom, \u0026quot;barriers and openings\u0026quot;. Both pieces were first shattered and then glued and taped back together.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1. Each installation, each work is a survival mechanism, a consequence of a mechanism that plays out in a given period of my time, and consists of a series of entities, which automatically focus on that theme, that gravitate towards it in order to become fixed, logical and controlled in the form of an organically formed whole.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e2. The installation deals with topical problems of contemporary artistical survival related to the restoration of impaired functions of the central nervous system. The fundamental principles underlying the work of the brain, which enabled it to function for many years without interruption, today command the interest of experts not only in medicine, biology and science, but in art as well. This is because these principles can be utilized to make survival mechanisms more reliable.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e3. Antonin Artaud:\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nLà où d\u0026rsquo; autres proposent des oeuvres je ne prétends pas autre chose que de montrer mon esprit. (Where others present their works, I claim to do no more than show my mind)\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","name":"Attributen en Substantie","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Dit werk werd eerst getoond als deel van de installatie \u0026quot;Attributen en Substantie\u0026quot; in Amsterdam in 1995. Het staat echter op zich en draagt zelfstandig ook die naam.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDe gravure in fluorescerende plexiplaat is de vergroting van een tekening die ik als tekenleraar\u0026nbsp; in de Academie voor Schone Kunsten te Gent maakte, tussen de middag. Wat men ziet is het krakkemikkige ge\u0026iuml;mproviseerde schavot waarop het naaktmodel tijdens mijn lessen op moest werken.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOp de gele scherf plexiglas staat een interieur met plus en min erin. Het verbeeldt de ambigu\u0026euml; impact die een ruimte heeft op wat erin gebeurt.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nDe blauwe stukken plexi tonen apart de boven- en de onderkant van een gemaskerde vrouwelijke figuur, het bovenstuk met de tekst: \u0026quot;shape and control\u0026quot;, het onderstuk \u0026quot;barriers and openings\u0026quot;. De beide stukken werden eerst kapot geslagen,daarna gelijmd en opgeplakt.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e1. Elke installatie, elk werk is een overlevingsmechanisme, is het gevolg van een mechanisme dat zich in een bepaalde periode van mijn tijd afspeelt, bestaat uit een serie entiteiten, die zich automatisch toespitsen op dat thema, zich ernaar toebuigen om in de vorm van een organisch ontstaan geheel vast, logisch en gecontroleerd te worden.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e2. The installation deals with topical problems of contemporary artistical survival related to the restoration of impaired functions of the central nervous system. The fundamental principles underlying the work of the brain, which enabled it to function for many years without interruption, today command the interest of experts not only in medicine, biology and science, but in art as well. This is because these principles can be utilized to make survival mechanisms more reliable.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e3. Antonin Artaud:\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nLà où d\u0026rsquo; autres proposent des oeuvres je ne prétends pas autre chose que de montrer mon esprit.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","name":"Attributen en Substantie","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","name":null,"short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[],"items":[]}