{"id":12338,"title":"The Book of Hours","dimensions":"27 x 33 x 33 cm (box closed),  23 x 75 x 75 cm (box opened)","date_begin":"2014-01-01","material":"glas, mechanisms watches and two leporlello books","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":72,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"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":57,"permalink":"the-book-of-hours","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/026/441/medium_500/IMG_4699_copy.JPG?1420112744","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/000/026/441/large/IMG_4699_copy.JPG?1420112744","poster_credits":"(c)photo: Isabel Brey, Ghent - Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;The boxes are an attempt to represent the intensifications of internal modes and their relationships in spatial terms; and what results is a \u0026#39;hermeneutics of the soul\u0026#39; that creates \u0026#39;a topography of the mind.\u0026#39; Articulated like a labyrinth or mandala, Brey considers the box-mind compound the \u0026#39;most metaphysical project\u0026#39; he had attempted, nothing less than \u0026#39;a workshop to produce the invisible\u0026#39; or \u0026#39;the countless\u0026#39; that is also \u0026#39;the way out and the jail.\u0026#39; Cavernous, secret, spatialized, architectural and imagistic, the boxes are a locus for the transaction of \u0026#39;a spectacular alchemical game between qualtities, elements and senses.\u0026#39; They are figures of containment -lockers, shells, receptacles, vessels, bodies -that may shelter only nothingness or evacuated will. Though cubic in form their spheres of influence is circular. Produced in a series without numbers and end, they contain openings within openings and hidden compartments that may never be found. These activation potentials betoken an elemental fraction of the total project that is held in reserve in order to conjugate its \u0026#39;fortune and power.\u0026#39;\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e(Welchman, J., Que le importa al Tigre una\u0026nbsp;Raya M\u0026aacute;s: The Futility of Good Intentions, 2014, p.55.)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBooks:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUntitled,\u0026nbsp;leporello book,\u0026nbsp;26 (x19) x 420 cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUntitled,\u0026nbsp;leporello book,\u0026nbsp;26 (x19) x 310cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRead more information:\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/the_vault_original/000/026/621/original/The_Kephalaia_Of_The_Teacher.pdf?1421838315\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Kephalaia Of The Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;De dozen zijn een poging om de intensiveringen\u0026nbsp;van interne modi en hun relaties te tonen in ruimtelijke\u0026nbsp;termen. Het resultaat is een \u0026lsquo;hermeneutiek van de ziel\u0026rsquo; die\u0026nbsp;\u0026lsquo;een topografie van de geest\u0026rsquo; cre\u0026euml;ert. Brey beschouwt het\u0026nbsp;stel doos-geest, dat gearticuleerd wordt als een labyrint\u0026nbsp;of een mandala, het \u0026lsquo;meest metafysische project\u0026rsquo; dat hij\u0026nbsp;ooit heeft uitgeprobeerd, niets minder dan \u0026lsquo;een workshop\u0026nbsp;om het onzichtbare te produceren\u0026rsquo; of \u0026lsquo;het oneindige\u0026rsquo;, wat\u0026nbsp;ook \u0026lsquo;de uitweg uit de gevangenis\u0026rsquo; is. Grotachtig, geheim,\u0026nbsp;verruimtelijkt, architectonisch en imagistisch: de dozen\u0026nbsp;zijn een locus voor de transactie van \u0026lsquo;een spectaculair\u0026nbsp;alchemistisch spel tussen kwaliteiten, elementen en\u0026nbsp;zintuigen.\u0026rsquo; Het zijn de figuren van omsluiting: kluisjes,\u0026nbsp;schelpen, containers, vaten, organen, die misschien\u0026nbsp;slechts een schuilplaats verlenen aan het niets of de geledigde\u0026nbsp;wil. Hoewel kubisch qua vorm, is hun invloedssfeer\u0026nbsp;cirkelvormig. Ze worden geproduceerd in een reeks\u0026nbsp;zonder nummer of einde en bevatten openingen binnen\u0026nbsp;openingen en verborgen compartimenten die misschien\u0026nbsp;nooit gevonden worden. Dit activeringspotentieel kondigt\u0026nbsp;een elementaire fractie van het totale project aan, die\u0026nbsp;in reserve wordt gehouden om zich met \u0026lsquo;het fortuin en\u0026nbsp;de macht\u0026rsquo; van dat project te verenigen.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e(Welchman, J., Que le importa al Tigre una Raya M\u0026aacute;s: Op de bodem van de hemel, 2014, annex p.16.)\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBoeken:\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUntitled,\u0026nbsp;leporello boek,\u0026nbsp;26cm (x19cm) x 420cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUntitled,\u0026nbsp;leporello boek,\u0026nbsp;26cm (x19cm) x 310 cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHier vind je meer informatie:\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/the_vault_original/000/026/621/original/The_Kephalaia_Of_The_Teacher.pdf?1421838315\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Kephalaia Of The Teacher: The Edited Coptic Manichaean Texts\u003c/a\u003e\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"}}]}