Middle Gate

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    Het tentoonstellingsproject Middle Gate II – Het verhaal van Dimpna is een samenwerking tussen het M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, en cultuurcentrum de Werft in Geel. Middle Gate II is het vervolg op de tentoonstelling Middle Gate van Jan Hoet in Geel in 2013. Het concept van de tentoonstelling is nauw verweven met de legende van de heilige Dimpna, de patrones van de bezetenen en geesteszieken, en de beschermheilige tegen epilepsie en krankzinnigheid. De legende van Dimpna is sterk verbonden met de identiteit van de stad Geel, “de barmhartige stede”.

    Olga Tobreluts

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    (c)image: M HKA, Antwerp
    Modernisation (Part III), 2002
    Olga Tobreluts
    Fotografie , 120 x 150 cm
    photo; ink on paper

    Born in 1970 in Murino, Leningrad Oblast, Russia, Olga Tobreluts was trained as an architect but is now an accomplished artist who works with photography, video, painting and sculpture. Since the 1990s Tobreluts quitted painting altogether to focus on computer graphics combined with photography and 3D models. She became a pioneer of the digital art movement in Russia. Tobreluts’ artistic approach evokes the ideas of Neo-Academism followers when she strives for achieving a realistic resemblance between the 3D image of a human body created with the aid of the computer and that represented in the form of an academic drawing. 

    Olga Tobreluts explores the adaptive evolution in human visual perception in the 21st century and offers new forms of visual expression that discuss the simulation of reality and “realness” in our advanced technological age. As one of the first contemporary artists who picked modern computer technologies as a medium she developed her own singular yet extremely recognizable style. Tobreluts’s artworks appear to be intricate manipulations, in which historical realities and myths of modern culture are melted together for the purpose of transforming them into a magical super reality.

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