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‘Smoke, Ashes, Fable’ presents a unique selection of William Kentridge’s work curated for Sint-Janshospitaal in Bruges – at 800 years one of Europe’s oldest surviving hospital buildings. Organized around the themes of trauma and healing, the show takes as its centerpiece Kentridge’s 2015 video installation More Sweetly Play the Dance, a contemporary interpretation of the medieval Dance of Death. Through a dialogue between the displayed artworks – including ones by Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers, with whom Kentridge shares interests – and the remarkable hospital setting, the exhibition presents art as a powerful means of ‘working through’ layers of history.
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Margaret K. Koerner (red.)
William Kentridge In Bruges
'Smoke, Ashes, Fable' bevat een collectie van William Kentridge en de uitzonderlijke locatie – het Brugse Sint-Janshospitaal, met zijn 800 jaar een van de oudste nog bestaande ziekenhuiscomplexen in Europa – maken van deze tentoonstelling een niet te missen gebeuren over trauma en heling. Centraal staat een hedendaagse interpretatie van de middeleeuwse dodendans: More Sweetly Play the Dance, een video-installatie van Kentridge uit 2015. De dialoog tussen de opmerkelijke setting en de geëxposeerde kunstwerken - onder meer van Marcel Broodthaers, met wie Kentridge een aantal dingen gemeen heeft - daagt de bezoeker uit om laag na laag van de geschiedenis te 'doorwerken'. De catalogus bevat vier essays. Margaret Koster Koerner, curator van de tentoonstelling, biedt de lezer een beeld van Kentridge en van Brugge. Benjamin Buchloh gaat in op de manier waarop Kentridge de historische avant-garde begrijpt: vanuit het perspectief van de balling, dus vanuit een heel andere invalshoek dan de Amerikaanse en Europese naoorlogse neo-avant-gardisten. Joseph Leo Koerner laat zich door het voormalige ziekenhuis en de historische gelaagdheid van Brugge inspireren om de kunst van Kentridge te zien als een eigenzinnig verwerkingsproces waarin het verleden zowel verminkend als verlossend werkt. Harmon Siegel onderzoekt Kentridges benadering van de filmgeschiedenis en brengt daarbij ook het werk van Broodthaers ter sprake. 'Smoke, Ashes, Fable' biedt een indringende kijk op een van de grootste kunstenaars van onze tijd.kunst
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Power & Other Things
The project takes its name from the demand for the transfer of power and other things to the newly independent Indonesia in 1945. It travels through time, from European colonial occupation through the development of the republican state to the trans-national contemporary cultures of today. It looks at the various international exchanges that happened in the territories of contemporary Indonesia, through the images and ideas of artists. These exchanges were of different kinds: trade, culture, religion, ideology and war. They produced a variety of results: violence, oppression, racism, creativity, spiritual awakening, and other things. The ideologies and challenges of modernity are common ways in which Indonesia has been depicted by others and has defined itself over the period. As this modern period recedes into history, the project will seek ways to remember how it has influenced contemporary understanding and ask the current generation of artists to look back in order to rewrite the past and potentially create the conditions for a different future. The catalogue and the exhibition will follow a broad chronological narrative, allowing readers and visitors to learn more about how this huge archipelago has changed over the past two centuries and to observe how it has responded and adapted to influences originating from both inside and outside the islands. The influence of the imperial Dutch and Japanese occupations naturally form a significant element in the narrative of the exhibition as does the constant struggle for different forms of independence or equal treatment by the Javanese and other Indonesian cultures. The importance of Chinese and Arab influence on Indonesia's cultural history will also feature as the exhibition tries to look for alternative ways, alongside the post-colonial, for understanding the present. The presentations will include work made during the residencies as well as new commissions.kunst
The Grand Atelier
Long before its emergence as a political entity, Europe was distinguished by its intense traffic in goods and people. We too often forget that the trade routes and other navigable highways were trafficked at a very early stage by artists, works of art and rich patrons desirous of satisfying their appetite for beauty. Well-known and lesser known works offer an insight into this "European space for art and ideas" which already existed at the dawn of the Middle Ages. With its remarkable and often spectacular works, 'The Grand Atelier' illustrates various facets and many forms of this artistic interaction. The work covers a long period in the history of art, from the fifth century – the fall of the Roman Empire in the west – to the eighteenth century – the birth of the first great museums; calling on 350 works from well over a hundred European collections. The texts in the catalogue stem from the pens of several European luminaries in the history of art.kunst
