Middle Gate

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".

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©Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Collection Flemish Community

Verloren ruimte, 1988

Guy Mees

Collage , 116 x 288 cm (framed)

paper

Mees’s work is systemic, yet the system emerges from within the work itself. The precision of his oeuvre — with interlocking elements from painting, sculpture, and performance, in which colour, texture, and the experience of space are paramount — is of an order that resists verbal definition. In the 1980s, Mees creates works with cut-out pieces of coloured paper, pinned against the wall or another surface like painterly gestures, forming a kind of ‘lost spaces’.