{"id":34216,"title":"Biscuit Moulds","dimensions":"variable dimensions","date_begin":"2020-01-01","material":"wood","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":10,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the Artist and DMW Gallery","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2023-01-01","reference":"","stream_count_app":52,"permalink":"speculoos","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/090/115/medium_500/2023_IN_SITU_Ignace_Cami_TEN_F048.jpg?1685612300","cached_actor_names":"Ignace Cami","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","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/000/090/115/large/2023_IN_SITU_Ignace_Cami_TEN_F048.jpg?1685612300","poster_credits":"(c)Ignace Cami, photo: M HKA, 2023","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor several years now, Ignace Cami has been training himself in the traditional cutting of outsized koekplanken [biscuit moulds] using text or image. Cami collaborates with local bakers who use their own, often secret, speculaas (a\u001ftypical Belgian spiced biscuit) recipe to bake biscuits. The biscuit is then displayed and offered in a mobile biscuit cart. Biscuit moulds can be traced back to a pre-Christian ritual of offerings: gradually, the offering was replaced by its image baked in biscuit.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFor this exhibition, Cami cut the images of three Antwerp giants into biscuit moulds: Druoon Antigoon; Pallas Athena, his wife; and Lange Wapper. According to legend, Druoon Antigoon ravaged Antwerp by demanding high tolls for passage on the River Scheldt, cutting off a hand from anyone who could not pay. Eventually, with a ruse the hero Silvio Brabo managed to cut off Antigoon\u0026rsquo;s hand and threw it into the river. This is how the city supposedly got its name, Antwerpen literally meaning hand-werpen (hand\u001fthrowing). From the 15th\u001fcentury on, giants were driven through the city in processions and circumambulations or ommegangen. The giants symbolise power and oppression. When a new monarch ruled the city, Antigoon was used as a warning of what could happen to leaders who wanted to keep the Antwerp people under oppression.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAl enkele jaren bekwaamt Ignace Cami zich in het ambachtelijk uitsnijden van buitenmaatse \u003ca href=\"https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koekplank\"\u003ekoekplanken\u003c/a\u003e met tekst of beeld. Hij werkt telkens samen met lokale bakkers die hun eigen, vaak geheime, speculaasrecept inzetten om koeken te bakken. De koek wordt dan gepresenteerd en aangeboden in een mobiele koekenkar. Koekplanken kunnen teruggevoerd worden op een prechristelijk gebruik van offergaven, waarbij in de loop der jaren het concrete offer werd vervangen door een in koek gebakken afbeelding ervan.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eVoor deze tentoonstelling sneed Cami de afbeelding van drie reuzen (Druoon Antigoon, zijn vrouw Pallas Athena en Lange Wapper) van Antwerpen in koekenplanken. Volgens de sage teisterde Druoon Antigoon Antwerpen door hoge tol te eisen voor de doorvaart op de Schelde en iedereen die deze niet kon inlossen een hand af te hakken. Uiteindelijk slaagde de held Silvio Brabo erin met een list Antigoons hand af te hakken en in de Schelde te werpen. Zo zou de naam van de stad aan haar naam komen: \u0026ldquo;hand-werpen\u0026rdquo;. Vanaf de 15de eeuw werden reuzen in Ommegangen en stoeten door de stad gereden. Ze staan symbool voor macht en onderdrukking. Als er een nieuwe vorst over de stad heerste, werd Antigoon opgevoerd als waarschuwing voor wat er kon gebeuren met leiders die de Antwerpenaren te strak onder de knoet wilden houden\u0026hellip;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDepuis plusieurs ann\u0026eacute;es, Ignace Cami se perfectionne dans la sculpture artisanale de planches de biscuits surdimensionn\u0026eacute;es dans lesquelles il ajoute des textes ou des images. Il travaille chaque fois avec des boulangers locaux qui ont leur propre recette de sp\u0026eacute;culoos, souvent secr\u0026egrave;te. Le biscuit est ensuite pr\u0026eacute;sent\u0026eacute; et offert dans une charrette \u0026agrave; biscuits mobile. Les planches \u0026agrave; biscuits remontent \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;usage pr\u0026eacute;chr\u0026eacute;tien\u0026nbsp;de l\u0026rsquo;offrande. Au fil du temps, on a remplac\u0026eacute; la v\u0026eacute;ritable offrande par une effigie en p\u0026acirc;te \u0026agrave; biscuits.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePour cette exposition, Cami a taill\u0026eacute; dans la planche l\u0026rsquo;image de trois g\u0026eacute;ants anversois\u0026nbsp;: Druon Antigone, Pallas Ath\u0026eacute;na et Grand Wapper. Selon la l\u0026eacute;gende, Druon Antigone tourmentait Anvers en exigeant un p\u0026eacute;age important pour tout passage sur l\u0026rsquo;Escaut et tranchait une main \u0026agrave; quiconque ne pouvait pas le payer. Finalement, le h\u0026eacute;ros Silvius Brabo r\u0026eacute;ussit par une ruse \u0026agrave; couper la main d\u0026rsquo;Antigone et \u0026agrave; la jeter dans l\u0026rsquo;Escaut. Le nom de la ville, Antwerpen, serait tir\u0026eacute; de cette l\u0026eacute;gende\u0026nbsp;: \u003cem\u003ehand werpen\u003c/em\u003e ou \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;lancer de la main\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo;. Pallas Ath\u0026eacute;na \u0026eacute;tait l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;pouse de Druon Antigone. \u0026Agrave; partir du XV\u003csup\u003ee\u003c/sup\u003e\u0026nbsp;si\u0026egrave;cle, lors des processions, et en particulier lors de celle de l\u0026rsquo;Ommegang, on faisait d\u0026eacute;filer des g\u0026eacute;ants \u0026agrave; travers la ville. Ils symbolisaient le pouvoir et l\u0026rsquo;oppression. D\u0026egrave;s qu\u0026rsquo;un nouveau souverain r\u0026eacute;gnait sur la ville, Druon Antigone \u0026eacute;tait mis en sc\u0026egrave;ne en guise d\u0026rsquo;avertissement de ce qui pourrait arriver \u0026agrave; un dirigeant qui tiendrait les Anversois sous un joug trop \u0026eacute;crasant\u0026hellip;\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":5020,"name":"Ignace Cami","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}