{"id":12336,"title":"Ongon Tree","dimensions":"23 x 33 x 33 cm (box closed);  15 x 75 x 75 cm (box opened)","date_begin":"2014-01-01","material":"paper, spoon, coins, tortoise shells, metal, ceramic, lead, glass, buttons, leather, chains and one leporlello book","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":72,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy Ricardo Brey and Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":47,"permalink":"ongon-tree","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/026/438/medium_500/IMG_4666_copy.JPG?1420111298","cached_actor_names":"Ricardo Brey","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":"Object","nl":"Object","fr":"Objet"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/026/438/large/IMG_4666_copy.JPG?1420111298","poster_credits":"(c)photo: Isabel Brey, Ghent - Courtesy Ricardo Brey and Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the box \u003cem\u003eOngon Tree\u003c/em\u003e you will find four spheres and the shell of a tortoise. According to Brey the tortoise can be seen as a box, as such this work shows a box within a box. Furthermore, Brey tries to make us aware of the boxes that are present all around us. We live (like the tortoise) in boxes; a box can also be used as a metaphor for our head. In the box, which is our head, we keep memories and things that shape our lives, similar to the outset of the boxes Brey creates. The tortoise can also symbolize the cosmos, as they are often presented in origin stories.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooks:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeporello book:\u0026nbsp;D. Jacobt + Theodorum, 2014,\u0026nbsp;26 cm (x 26 cm) x 427 cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeporello book: La nave, 2015,\u0026nbsp;28 cm (x 28 cm ) x 468 cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn de doos van \u003cem\u003eOngon Tree\u003c/em\u003e vind je buiten 4 bolvormen ook het schild van een schildpad. De schildpad kan volgens Brey ook gezien worden als een doos, het werk toont dus een doos in een doos. Verder tracht Brey ons ook bewust te maken dat we omringt worden door dozen, we wonen (net als schildpadden) ook in dozen en een doos kan ook gebruikt worden als metafoor voor ons hoofd. Ook daar behouden we, net als in de dozen van Brey, herinneringen en dingen die ons leven vorm geven. Maar de schildpad kan ook symbool staan voor de kosmos, zoals ze vaak voorgesteld wordt in ontstaansgeschiedenissen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoeken:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeporello boek:\u0026nbsp;D. Jacobt + Theodorum, 2014,\u0026nbsp;26 cm (x 26cm) x 427 cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeporello boek: La nave, 2015,\u0026nbsp;28 cm (x 28cm ) x 468cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":608,"name":"Ricardo Brey","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}