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".

    Jan Cox

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    ©Courtesy Archief De Zwarte Panter, Antwerpen
    The Meaning of Surrealism
    Jan Cox
    Text , 12 p

    This manuscript of an educational lecture values surrealism as a move to liberate the human spirit from conformity and hypocrisy.  The two World Wars are cited in evidence.  That world that surrealism challenged is a world totally out of balance, living on the edge of a volcano.  Cox illustrated this mindset with quotations from De Chirico. The liberating action of surrealism, with its use of automatic writing and paranoiac-critical activity, and with its tight relationship to the real, is explained by Cox through works by Duchamp, Dali, Ernst and Miro.

    The manuscript The Joy of Experience of Totality appears to be an earlier version of this text. 

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