{"id":11065,"title":"Endless Cities","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2009-01-01","material":"mixed media on paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":77,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":6,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy the artist and Galerie Kusseneers, Brussels","cached_tag_list":"collage","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2014-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":14,"permalink":"endless-cities","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Collage","nl":"Collage","fr":"Collage"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/023/981/large/Ermias_Kifleyesus_photoM_HKAclinckx1.jpg?1402495258","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis series of works is the core of Kifleyesus\u0026rsquo; socially engaged practice, produced in international telephone cabins around Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent. Many are produced using folded paper posters and advertisements that portray some of the world\u0026rsquo;s most renowned and photogenic celebrities of western culture. Yet, following their exposure to the daily flow of visitors to the cabin, their images become slowly obliterated, often to the point of unrecognisability. Images of idealised beauty are erased by the build-up from the combined abstract mark-making of many. (NH)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeze reeks werken vormt de kern van Kifleyesus\u0026rsquo; sociaal ge\u0026euml;ngageerde praktijk, en werd gerealiseerd in internationale telefooncabines in en rond Brussel, Antwerpen en Gent. Velen zijn geproduceerd op basis van gevouwen papieren posters en advertenties die enkele van \u0026#39;s werelds meest gerenommeerde en fotogenieke beroemdheden van de westerse cultuur portretteren. Door hun blootstelling aan de dagelijkse stroom van bezoekers in de cabine echter, raken hun beelden langzaam uitgewist, vaak tot op het punt waar ze volledig onherkenbaar zijn geworden. Beelden van ge\u0026iuml;dealiseerde schoonheid worden uitgewist door de lagen gecombineerde abstracte tekens van velen. (NH)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eCette s\u0026eacute;rie d\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;uvres, r\u0026eacute;alis\u0026eacute;es dans des cabines t\u0026eacute;l\u0026eacute;phoniques internationales \u0026agrave; Bruxelles, \u0026agrave; Anvers et \u0026agrave; Gand et aux alentours, constitue le noyau de la pratique engag\u0026eacute;e de Kifleyesus. Bon nombre sont cr\u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;es avec des affiches et publicit\u0026eacute;s en papier pli\u0026eacute;es o\u0026ugrave; apparaissent quelques-unes des c\u0026eacute;l\u0026eacute;brit\u0026eacute;s les plus photog\u0026eacute;niques de la culture occidentale. Mais, expos\u0026eacute;es au flot quotidien de visiteurs de la cabine, leurs images disparaissent peu \u0026agrave; peu, jusqu\u0026rsquo;\u0026agrave; devenir m\u0026eacute;connaissables. Ces images d\u0026rsquo;une beaut\u0026eacute; id\u0026eacute;alis\u0026eacute;e sont effac\u0026eacute;es par l\u0026rsquo;accumulation et la combinaison abstraite des traces et marques laiss\u0026eacute;es par une multitude. (NH)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2474,"name":"ERMIAS KIFLEYESUS","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}