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) M HKA
    La estructura de los mitos (The structure of myths), 1985-2015
    Ricardo Brey
    Installation , variable dimensions
    salt, plates, stencil and ink on paper, candles, soot, cowry shells, necklace with white beads and wax

    Repositioned for the first time for Ricardo Brey: Fuel to the Fire, MHKA 2015. Collection PB

    "At the outset Brey's appeared to be marked by the use of a conceptual grammar to put across a message that lay somewhere between myth and anthropology. This is what Humboldt's Diary (1982) and The Structure of Myths (1985) are about [...] The Structure of Myths presents a further element of complexity: the opening out of the form of the work into an installation, something that was to become characteristic of Brey's mode of expression."

    (Guadagnini, W., Ricardo Brey, 1996, p. 23.)

    Installation, exhibition New Art from Cuba:  Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York / College at Old Westbury, New York (US), 1985

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