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.

Self-Portrait, 1987

Sculpture, 173 x 87 x 29 cm.

image: © Maria Thereza Alves

Collection: Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (Inv. no. JD56).

"The Self-Portrait got to be very popular right away as soon as I made it. But I didn’t exactly make it on purpose. I made it because a gallery was doing a show of self-portraits and asked me to join. I said, 'Well I don’t do self-portraits, so I’m not going to do it' And they said, 'Come on, everybody is going to do it.' It was all minority artists doing things together.

So I had the idea as soon as I hung up the telephone: 'Okay, I’ll lie down on the floor and Maria Thereza can draw me on the canvas; then I’ll carve my face and see what else I will do...'" [full text here]

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Media

>Text written on the artwork

>Self-portrait

>detail

Artist

> Jimmie Durham.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: Jimmie Durham - The Bishop's Moose and the Pinkerton Men. Exit Art, New York, 01 November 1989 - 02 December 1989.

> Ensemble: Jimmie Durham 1980 - 1993.

> Ensemble: Performance, Video and Self-Portraits.