{"id":18017,"title":"Die Loreley","dimensions":"dimensions variable","date_begin":"1987-01-01","material":"paint and plexi on aluminium","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":169,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":29,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"AMVK","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"1990-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":43,"permalink":"die-loreley-7ca75196-d8e4-47d1-8765-a0193d7c6550","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/039/786/medium_500/AMVK_2018_photo_M_HKAcc_1_photo_M_HKAcc__1.jpg?1518100691","cached_actor_names":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven","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":"Series","nl":"","fr":""},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/039/786/large/AMVK_2018_photo_M_HKAcc_1_photo_M_HKAcc__1.jpg?1518100691","poster_credits":"(c)image: AMVK","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;The series Die Loreley consists of 54 portraits of acquaintances, friends and family members who spontaneously visited me during the period 1987\u0026ndash;1990. I let chance decide, and only asked them to come back once again to give me two hours of their time. That was the average time I needed to paint the portrait, in two 45-minute sessions. The natural light in my studio was also limited.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nI prepared the paint for one Plexiglas support per person. I started with the white of the eyes, around which I formed the rest of the face. During the sitting, people had to look me straight in the eye. In chronological order, in the order in which they visited me, I gave each model a line from the poem Die Loreley. There are nine people per stanza, and the poem has six stanzas.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe intention was to link a high-quality photo print of each portrait to the specific words. In this project, the portraits are only the first step to the final work. The second phase was stopped at a certain moment because it took too long to collect enough portraits. The poem Heinrich Heine wrote in the nineteenth century is about melancholy and inevitability \u0026ndash; destiny in its most fatal form.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Die Loreley bestaat uit 54 portretten van kennissen, vrienden en familie die mij gedurende de periode tussen 1987 en 1990 spontaan thuis bezochten. Ik heb het toeval laten beslissen, heb alleen gevraagd om nog eens terug te komen, me twee uren van hun tijd te geven. Dat was de tijd die ik gemiddeld nodig had om het portret in twee sessies van 45 minuten te schilderen. Het natuurlijk licht in mijn studio was ook beperkt.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nDe kleur van de plexiglas-ondergrond bereidde ik voor per persoon. Ik begon met het wit van de ogen waarrond ik de rest van het gelaat vormde. Gedurende het schilderen moesten de mensen me recht in de ogen kijken. In chronologische volgorde gaf ik aan elk van de geportretteerden een deel van het gedicht Die Loreley, in de volgorde waarop ze mij bezochten. Per strofe zijn er negen mensen, het gedicht telt zes strofen.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nDe bedoeling was om een hoogwaardige foto-afdruk van elk portret aan de specifieke woorden te verbinden. De portretten zijn in dit project alleen maar de eerste stap geweest tot het uiteindelijke werk. Die tweede fase is wegens de te lange tijd om genoeg portretten te verzamelen op een gegeven moment gestopt. Het gedicht dat Heinrich Heine in de 19e eeuw schreef gaat over melancholie en onontkoombaarheid, het noodlot in zijn meest fatale vorm.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003eLa Lorelei\u003cem\u003e se compose de 54\u0026nbsp;portraits d\u0026rsquo;amis, de connaissances et de membres de la famille qui sont spontan\u0026eacute;ment venus me rendre visite \u0026agrave; la maison entre 1987 et 1990.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; J\u0026rsquo;ai laiss\u0026eacute; le hasard d\u0026eacute;cider, je leur ai juste demand\u0026eacute; de bien vouloir revenir et de me consacrer deux heures, soit le temps qu\u0026rsquo;il me fallait en moyenne pour peindre leur portrait en deux sessions de 45\u0026nbsp;minutes. La lumi\u0026egrave;re naturelle dans mon atelier \u0026eacute;tait assez limit\u0026eacute;e.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Je pr\u0026eacute;parais la couleur de fond du plexiglas en fonction de la venue de la personne. Je commen\u0026ccedil;ais par le blanc des yeux autour desquels je dessinais le reste du visage. Pendant que je peignais leur portrait, je demandais aux gens de me regarder dans les yeux.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Par ordre chronologique, je remettais \u0026agrave; chacun des portraitur\u0026eacute;s une partie du po\u0026egrave;me La Lorelei. Il y avait neuf personnes par strophe et le po\u0026egrave;me en comprend six.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Mon intention \u0026eacute;tait de relier une impression photographique de haute qualit\u0026eacute; de chaque portrait aux mots sp\u0026eacute;cifiques. Dans ce projet, les portraits ne sont que la premi\u0026egrave;re \u0026eacute;tape de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026oelig;uvre aboutie.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Mais en raison du temps excessif qu\u0026rsquo;il me fallait pour rassembler assez de portraits, la seconde \u0026eacute;tape a pris fin \u0026agrave; un moment donn\u0026eacute;, avant son ach\u0026egrave;vement.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Le po\u0026egrave;me de Heinrich Heine, \u0026eacute;crit au XIXe\u0026nbsp;si\u0026egrave;cle, traite de la m\u0026eacute;lancolie et de l\u0026rsquo;inexorabilit\u0026eacute; du destin sous sa forme la plus fatale.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\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":1472,"name":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}