M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Onderzoek omtrent het actuele esthetische ideaal / Research about the Actual Estheatic Ideal, 1976

Performance

©Estate Hugo Roelandt

During the exhibition Theory, Information and Practice in Ghent, Hugo Roelandt shows an installation of 16 large nude photographs that show the front and back of 8 persons. At the same time an opinion poll is distributed about “the actual aesthetic human physical ideal”. Roelandt wants to demonstrate that the aesthetic ideal of Michelangelo is obsolete and wants to create a new ideal. 

For his performance he places five figures in a situated created by Michelangelo. According to that artist these figures took on the perfect aesthetic pose, what Roelandt refutes with a different reality. He let’s his performers move from one side of the hall to the other in order to disrupt the static composition.

‘Research about the actual aesthetic ideal’ is a critique on the idealforms of the body imposed on us by the media. The spectators can compose their ideal man / woman on the basis of the large nude photographs showing people with different body proportions, e.g. thick or skinny buttocks etc.

(Abstracts from Hugo Roelandt: Let's Expand The Sky, red. Mark Holthof, Occasional Papers, London, 2016)

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Media

>Dennis Denys painted by Hugo Roelandt, during the Aesthetic Ideal performance, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, 1976.

>Filled in opinion poll, Research about the Actual Aesthetic Ideal, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, 1976

>Hugo Roelandt, Research about the Actual Esteheatic Ideal, 1976, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent

>Hugo Roelandt - Nude Portraits, in catalogue Theorie, informatie, praktijk, Zwarte Zaal, Ghent, 1976

>Hugo Roelandt - Nude Portraits, series of 16, 1976

>Hugo Roelandt - Nude Portraits, series of 16, 1976

Artist

> Hugo Roelandt.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

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> Exhibition: Hugo Roelandt - The End Is A New Beginning. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 February 2025 - 25 May 2025.

> Ensemble: BODY.

> Ensemble: Hugo Roelandt Projects.

Related Items

>Hugo Roelandt, Naaktportretten / Nude Portraits, 1976.Photography, ink, paper.