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".

    Olga Tobreluts

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    °1970
    Born in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad), RU

    Olga Tobreluts (°1970) is born in Leningrad, where she first studied architecture, later turning her hand to the visual arts: photography, video, sculpture and painting. She was part of the Neo-Academism Movement championed by its creator, Timur Novikov, taking the techniques associated with this movement and combining them with cutting-edge developments in media technology.

    Since the nineties Tobreluts has been using the computer as a full-fledged technical medium to create realistic 3D models, which she often integrates in both her paintings and  photographic works. Through her combined use of historical fact and myth, as well as the challenges of contemporary culture, both content-related and thematic, hybrid manipulations manifest that convert the past into an estranging hyper reality.

    Tobreluts is considered the pioneer of Russia’s digital art movement.

    Items

    Modernisation (Part II), 2002

    Olga Tobreluts
    Modernisation (Part III), 2002

    Olga Tobreluts
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