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".

    Ricardo Brey

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    (c)photo: We document art, Antwerp - Collection: Collection Pieter and Marieke Sanders, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
    Shout even Gently, 2013
    Ricardo Brey
    Object , 38 x 37.5 x 37.5 cm (box closed), 38 x 75 x 75 cm (box open)
    metallic paint, paper, aged silver metallic paper, folding carpenter’s ruler, flute, arrow point, trinket, metal, lead, nails, silvered metal bird

    "The found object has held a particularly strong presence in Brey's sculptural practice. [...] Since 2009, Brey has been developing this practice through a body of work entitled [Inside Out], which presents itself in the form of boxes. Assembled and closed, they lead you to believe that what lies inside should be archival materials. When each is opened from the top-lid and disassembled -so that its walls, sometimes in several cocooning layers, drop down to its sides -what is revealed is a richly layered ecosystem of materials, surfaces, objects, raw elements, books, prints, and drawings."

    (McKee, J., Que le importa al Tigre una Raya Más: The Futility of Good Intentions, 2014, p.85.)

    Books:

    Oxidaciones I y II. Hierro, Aluminio y Plata, 2013, leporello book, 17 cm x (18 cm) x 352 cm

    Silver Oxidation, 2013, leporello book, 24.5 cm x (24.5 cm) x 352 cm

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