Middle Gate

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    The exhibition project Middle Gate II – The Story of Dymphna is a collaboration between M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp) and the cultural centre de Werft in Geel. Middle Gate II is the follow up to the exhibition Middle Gate, curated by Jan Hoet in Geel in 2013. The exhibition concept is closely tied to the legend of the holy Dymphna, saint of the possessed, the mentally ill and patroness against epilepsy and insanity. The legend of Dymphna shares a strong connection to the identity of Geel, "the charitable city".

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    Chairs with HeadNurse motive, 2005
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
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    "I re-upholstered 2 armchairs and 4 plain chairs of my grandmother in fabric with HeadNurse imagery. 

    Charles Baudelaire shouts the 2nd half of the 19th century: "Le Satanisme a gagné!” and opens dead-tired the gates for Modernism as we know it. Simulteneously in North America Pragmatism is born, a materialistic philosophy of the New World of which Richard Rorty will become, in 1979, the most extreme beholder. 

    1915: in Moscow Suprematism started with The Black Square of Kazimir Malevitsj. At the same time in France-USA there is The Big Glass of Duchamp, transparent, double-sided, never finished. Broken, it became an icon.
    1966: in New York  Barnett Newman shows: Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue. Abstract Expressionism.
    January 2004: in Ghent my interactive work Rorty The Headroom the last work of my HeadNurse-cycle, dealt with all these -isms, in particular with all the fearful esteems for symptotic spiritual creatures which mainly reflect wrong balanced organic structures.

    Where Descartes spoke about Suprematism of reason over feelings, Rorty had his view on Suprematism of reality over perception. And what about the digital?"     — AMVK

     

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