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.

L'odeur de la viande, 2015

Artist Novel, 20 x 14,5 cm, 80 p., language : French, publisher : Esperluète édition, ISBN : 9782359840612.

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2029/524).

Literary synopsis

In the same way that the child turns, from one second to the next one, from joy to melancholy, Gregory Forstner tries to formulate the complexity of a sensation in a synthetic image. He doesn't seek to issue a critique, an opinion or to impose a moral in his work; the space of the canvas, like that of writing, is not such a place. Morality would reduce its impact and scope. Forstner's ambition is to achieve a raw, thrilling, irreducible, classical object from sophisticated means.
The truth is unkown. Forstner's way of approaching the world taking into account its absurdity is to be interpreted from his origins: as a (banal) curse from which, probably, he became an artist.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

L'odeur de la viande is part of a wider project about life – which is related to Forstner's artistic practice.

Novel's website

Authorship: Artist Author.

Creative Strategy: Artworks Biographical Origin.

Genre: Autobiography.

Publishing: Publishing House.

Theme: Art, Childhood, Identity.

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Media

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>2007, oil on canvas, 61x50 cm. Collection Michael Zink. Photo Jens Wagner.

>2011, 250x200 cm, private collection. Photo Bill Orcutt.

>2007, oil on linen, 162x130cm. Collection Nathalie Trovato. Photo Jean-Luc Lacroix (Musée de Grenoble).

Artist

> Gregory Forstner.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.