{"id":13350,"title":"Ercola, Vrije Inkom","dimensions":"","date_begin":"1973-01-01","material":"zeefdruk","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":76,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the Estate George Smits, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"INBOX George Smits MAFprint","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"ercola-vrije-inkom","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"George Smits","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":"Print","nl":"Prent","fr":"Epreuve"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/030/009/large/2015_Georges_Smit_Inbox_deel_2_photoM_HKA_clinckx22_2.jpg?1450704929","poster_credits":"Courtesy of the Estate George Smits, Antwerp","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMAFprint\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn George Smits\u0026rsquo; own words from 1981: \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;The second part of myself was devoted to MAFprint\u0026quot;.\u0026nbsp; Here we present a number of works from this idiosyncratic designer, silkscreen printer and comic book maker, predominantly from the period 1968-1975 and brought together under the motto: \u0026quot;Yesterday bonkers, today amazing, tomorrow banal.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by Pop Art, George Smits founds MAFprint (Mad Artist Foundation)\u0026nbsp;in 1968: a \u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;one-man association\u0026quot; to promote affordable art forms for a broad public: posters, comics, events with an experimental mobile silkscreen studio.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1969 MAFprint joins forces with ERCOLA \u0026ndash; Experimental Research Center of Liberal Arts \u0026ndash; and in the early 1970s it grow into an important hub of Antwerp\u0026#39;s artistic milieu.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMAFprint\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn George Smits\u0026rsquo; eigen woorden uit 1981: \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;Het tweede deel van mezelf is dan MAFprint\u0026quot;. Van deze ontwerper, zeefdrukker en buitenbeen-striptekenaar wordt een aantal werken getoond, vooral uit de periode 1968-1975, bijeengebracht onder het motto: \u0026ldquo;Gisteren waanzinnig, vandaag geniaal, morgen banaal\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGe\u0026iuml;nspireerd door de Pop Art richt Smits in 1968 MAFprint op, de Mad Artist Foundation: een \u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;\u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;nmansvereniging ter bevordering van goedkope kunstvormen, kunstvormen voor breder publiek: affiches, strips, actie\u0026#39;s met experimenteel mobiel zeefdrukatelier\u003c/em\u003e\u0026rdquo;.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1969 trekt MAFprint in bij ERCOLA \u0026ndash; Experimental Research Center of Liberal Arts \u0026ndash; dat in de prille jaren 1970 uitgroeit tot een knooppunt in het Antwerpse artistieke milieu.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eM.A.F.print\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eGeorge Smits en 1981\u0026nbsp;: \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;La seconde partie de moi-m\u0026ecirc;me est \u003cem\u003eM.A.F.print\u003c/em\u003e. Des \u0026oelig;uvres de ce cr\u0026eacute;ateur, s\u0026eacute;rigraphe et b\u0026eacute;d\u0026eacute;iste original, principalement de la p\u0026eacute;riode 1968-1975, sont r\u0026eacute;unies et expos\u0026eacute;es sous la devise \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;Fou hier, g\u0026eacute;nial aujourd\u0026rsquo;hui, banal demain\u0026rdquo;.\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEn 1968, inspir\u0026eacute; par le pop art, Smits cr\u0026eacute;e M.A.F.print \u0026ndash; Mad Artist Foundation\u0026nbsp;: une \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;association unipersonnelle pour la promotion de formes d\u0026rsquo;art bon march\u0026eacute;, \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;attention d\u0026rsquo;un vaste public, sous forme d\u0026rsquo;un atelier de s\u0026eacute;rigraphie mobile et exp\u0026eacute;rimental qui produit des affiches, des bandes dessin\u0026eacute;es et autres actions.\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEn 1969, \u003cem\u003eM.A.F.print \u003c/em\u003es\u0026rsquo;installe dans les ateliers d\u0026rsquo;E.R.C.O.L.A. \u0026ndash; Experimental Research Center of Liberal Arts \u0026ndash;, qui devient d\u0026egrave;s le d\u0026eacute;but des ann\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;70 une plaque tournante du milieu artistique anversois.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":2773,"name":"George Smits","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}