{"id":15614,"title":"Mutus Liber 953","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2014-01-01","material":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels ","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"mutus-liber","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","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":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/516/large/KendellGeers_MutusLiber.jpg?1505897691","poster_credits":"Courtesy Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, (c)image: BPS22, Charleroi","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn general Geers tackles moral and political issues through his works, while critically reflecting on the context of art, its modes of exhibition, on the artistic institution and its actors. For example, in the early 1990s, he criticised the museum ideology, exploding the rails of several of them, offering only holes in the walls and heaps of debris. More recently, works emphasise the materialism of Western art, controlled by an increasingly powerful art market and major international events. Thus, the work presented in the exhibition combine traditional African sculptures and pictorial interventions inherited from the Western modernist tradition. This mobilisation of African magic and western pictorial rituals aims to restore art to its subversive force, to make it reinvest a speculative field beyond the visible.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKendell Geers\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;kruist in zijn oeuvre vooroordelen uit heel de wereld. In \u003cem\u003eMutus Liber\u003c/em\u003e is een Afrikaanse fetisj ingesmeerd met kleur; alsof de verf terug zijn spirituele kracht opwekt. Zijn werk verplicht de kijker traditionele verklaringen van kunst op te geven en er een directe emotionele confrontatie mee aan te gaan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eL\u0026rsquo;artiste sud-africain \u003cstrong\u003eKendell Geers\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;produit des \u0026oelig;uvres qui croisent des pr\u0026eacute;jug\u0026eacute;s glan\u0026eacute;s autour du monde. Les f\u0026eacute;tiches africains sont badigeonn\u0026eacute;s de couleur\u0026nbsp;; comme si la peinture r\u0026eacute;activait leur puissance spirituelle. Ses \u0026oelig;uvres imposent de renoncer aux explications traditionnelles de l\u0026rsquo;art et d\u0026rsquo;accepter un corps-\u0026agrave;-corps \u0026eacute;motionnel avec elles.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDer s\u0026uuml;dafrikanische K\u0026uuml;nstler \u003cstrong\u003eKendell Geers\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;schafft Werke, die Vorurteile aus der ganzen Welt anschneiden. In \u003cem\u003eMutus Liber\u003c/em\u003e wird ein afrikanischer Fetisch mit Farbe beschmiert, als ob die Farbe seine spirituelle Kraft wieder auferweckt. Sein Werk zwingt den Betrachter, traditionelle Auslegungen der Kunst aufzugeben und sich auf eine direkte emotionelle Konfrontation einzulassen.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":429,"name":"Kendell Geers","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}