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
    As Manipulators of the Visual Arts our Understanding goes through our Eyes., 1961
    Jan Cox
    Text , 3 p

    This typescript is a lecture for Cox's students at the end of an academic year at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.  Here, Cox avows his support for a moral stance as the basis by which to judge art.  'Anyone with adequate technique can get away with murder,' is among his assertions.  The artist's ultimate aim is to give others a poetic raison d’être.  The first question must be 'why', then 'what', and not the 'how' that now takes precedence.

    The lecture was accompanied by slides.   

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