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.

>Freek Wambacq

Rustling leaves #2, 2012

Sculpture

©Kristien Daem

Collection: Courtesy of the artist.

Transposing from one medium to another connects these two works with the other two components of the ensemble. The sculptures 'Rustling leaves' (2012) consists of two tables upon which are a jumble of unrolled video and audio tapes. These minimal sculptures hark back, formally and literally, to the genre of the still-life. On the one hand the table-sculptures translate the two-dimensionality of the still-life into three dimensions, while on the other hand the objects on the tables are not there for their symbolic value but rather as potential sound makers. Here the recording tapes are used to mimic the rustling of leaves. The monochrome video tapes were used in 2000 to record the production process of a Wambacq installation, while the audio tapes in nuances of brown to black originate from the artist’s own music collection. The tapes have become ‘unreadable’ in this installation, and result – just like the Braille work – in a new sculpture that is steeped in melancholy.

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Artist

> Freek Wambacq.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: LATT: new art in Antwerp 1958-1962 #2 must we teach the blind to see?. M HKA, Antwerpen, 30 March 2012 - 13 May 2012.

Related Items

>Freek Wambacq, Rustling leaves #1, 2012.Sculpture.

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