{"id":576,"title":"Untitled","dimensions":"34.6 x 24.5 cm","date_begin":"1977-01-01","material":"paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":20,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eBraided paper. Black and white bars in the shape of a cross\u003c/p\u003e","date_end":"1978-01-01","reference":"S0408_07","stream_count_app":19,"permalink":"untitled--103","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"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":true,"category":{"en":"Drawing","nl":"Tekening","fr":"Dessin"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/001/409/large/heyv_muhka_07.jpg?1305893329","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRen\u0026eacute; Heyvaert worked as an architect in Ghent and the USA prior to the late-1960\u0026#39;s when starting to devote himself exclusively to visual art.\u0026nbsp; And it was only in the years after his death, in 1984, that his work became known to a wider circle of art lovers.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Heyvaert, the making of art was a way of escaping from physical and mental difficulties brought on by protracted illness.\u0026nbsp; On the one hand his work obsessively examines his own relationship to reality, while on the other hand we may also view his oeuvre as a kind of meditation.\u0026nbsp; Working slowly and precisely, the artist indeed comes to some manner of rest.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe oeuvre of Ren\u0026eacute; Heyvaert is marked by a sober and minimalist visual language.\u0026nbsp; Whether it takes the form of colorful lines and geometric patterns on squared paper, pencil on paper, perforated or plaited paper, the work always communicates the \u0026#39;desperate\u0026#39; (trans)action in a direct way.\u0026nbsp; For him, this act is in itself of equal importance as the resulting artifact.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe unusual and deceptive simplicity of his work focuses attention on the material.\u0026nbsp; Using abstract, geometric forms and patterns, he makes collage-like paper braided works.\u0026nbsp; By this braiding process, Heyvaert indeed succeeds in making 3-dimensional works from paper.\u0026nbsp; In this way, he attempts to dissolve the border between drawing and object.\u0026nbsp; He sees drawings not just as objects but, conversely, he also sees objects as drawings in space.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":54,"name":"René Heyvaert","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}