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".

    Philippe Van Snick

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    (c)image: Philippe Van Snick, 2017, Courtesy Philippe Van Snick & Galerie Tatjana Pieters
    Ping-Pong Revisited, 2017
    Philippe Van Snick
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    In 1972, at the height of the so-called Ping Pong diplomacy, the rapprochement between China (Mao Zedong) and the United States (Richard Nixon), Philippe Van Snick creates his work Ping Pong.  For Ping Pong Revisited (2017), Van Snick uses his ten-color palette as well as the contrast between day and night - themes that were not yet present in his oeuvre at the time - to update the 1970's work.

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