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, Courtesy Philippe Van Snick & Galerie Tatjana Pieters
    Grand Territorium, 2011
    Philippe Van Snick
    Sculpture , 130 x 130 x 380 cm
    wood, chalk

    For the exhibition Ping Pong, Belgian artist Philippe Van Snick brings together works from different periods in his oeuvre. The title Ping Pong refers, on the one hand, to the central work Ping Pong in the exhibition, on the other hand to the dynamics inherent in Van Snick's oeuvre.     

    Grand Territorium from 2011 stands for the situation of art, an axis, an anchor in time and the affirmation of the presence of the artist, and was previously shown in  the group exhibition Dedans-Dehors at the Château de Lacaze.

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