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: Isabel Brey, Ghent - Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
    Glimpse of Hidden Things, 2014-2015
    Ricardo Brey
    Object , 23 x 33 x 33 cm (box closed)
    golden aged metallic paper, marketry, pirite, dice , mirrow, metal, nest, screws, pistons and two leporello books

    "Brey thus makes demands of viewers of these boxes, which insist on close personal attention and hands-on contact 'for the work to reveal its chemistry.' The first term of this new commerce is predicated on the pleasures of unwrapping and opening, which couple with the voyeuristic compulsion of peering inside to enounter what is hitherto unseen and as yet unknown. Brey links this to popular wizardry, the conjuring of a rabbit from the magician's hat -a situation in which the space of the revelation is always the same, but what is conjured generally different -and surprising: rabbit, handkerchief, bouquet."

    (Welchman, J., Que le importa al Tigre una Raya Más: The Futility of Good Intentions, 2014, p.52.)

    Leporello book:

    Desde el comienzo, 2014-2015, 24 cm (x 24 cm ) x 310 cm

    Untitled, 24 cm ( x 24 cm ) x 456 cm

    Read the full text that helped inspire this work here:

    Spiritual Body and Celestial Earth by Henry Corbin

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