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: M HKA, Courtesy of the artist and Courtesy Alexander Gray Associates, New York © Ricardo Brey/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
    Parallel Universe, 2009
    Ricardo Brey
    Mixed Media , 23 x 31 x 300 cm (two parts, 1-iron base/ 2- line of dice)
    dice, iron, sawdust

    Universe (2001), the title piece of Brey's 2006 exhibition, took the form of a column of dice that looked as if it might topple over, but was, in fact, quite securely anchored. Eight years later, Brey produced a horizontally aligned sibling to the improbable verticality of Universe. Anchored by a rod to a metal base set on the floor, Parallel Universe splays out laterally like a squatting clothes-horse. The accumulation and weight of the dice and their supports causes the "arms" of the sculpture to bow, so that in addition to its anthropomorphic connotations, the piece resembles a pair of scales or the balancing pole of a highwire acrobat.

    (source: Welchman, John. Qué le Importa al Tigre una Raya Más: The Futility of Good Intentions, p.59)

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