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.

>Richard Hawkins

Fragile flowers, 2013

Book, 17.5 x 11.5 cm, 120 p., language : English, publisher : Les presses du réel.

©image: M HKA

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. B 2026/124).

Literary synopsis

Fragile Flowers is Richard Hawkins’ first book of fiction. It is haunted by a voyeuristic, desiring hunter, its narratives of homosexual indulgence and vulgar pleasure at once delightful and decadent. Fragile Flowers consists of a series of interconnected stories. The next book (it is intended to be two or more volumes) will make it clear that a kind of time travel is taking place. Aubrey is the young Ricky/Richard and in the future he is split into two halves: the naive but questing Aubrey and the verbose Dr. Tobias. There is always a permissive over-narrator like MomBrooks who serves as a kind of inspirational accelerator.

Relation of the novel to the artist’s practice

There is no direct relation between Fragile Flowers and the rest of Richard Hawkins’ visual production, except perhaps the Lotus Island/Frogtown stories, which are some stirred-up version of his Thai sextourism paintings (with huge crowds and an explicitness that are not present in the paintings).

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Artist

> Richard Hawkins .

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The Preparation of the Novel (Book Lovers 5.0). Fabra i Coats - Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, 18 July 2014 - 05 September 2014.

> Ensemble: The Artist's Novel.

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