COLLECTION

JUMPY CHICKEN

Messieurs Delmotte
This time the title is particularly ironic as the chicken is not actually jumping. Two strings are attached to its legs, which are used to pull the chicken away. This work is part of the series Facts and Gestures Vol. 2...

FOUR MANIFESTATIONS ON SIX ELEMENTS

Charlemagne Palestine
"Four Manifestations On Six Elements, one of Charlemagne Palestine most well-known works, has now finally been included in the Alga Marghen Golden Research series of CD editions presenting the composer’s relevant historical recordings. In 1973 Charlemagne Palestine was commissioned to make Four Manifestations On Six Elements by the Sonnabend Gallery in New York...

POLYFONISTEN

Stefaan Decostere
Polyphonic music developed in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the courts and religious centres of Europe, and was a method of composition whereby the various voices were treated as wholly or partly separate from each other. In ’Polyfonisten’, an identical line of thought is expressed in a mirror-like perspective of history as seen through the eyes of today...

VOAEX

Wolf Vostell
In the magical surroundings of the museum, a former launder- ette has been recycled for the video 'VOAEX'. This video features a series of concrete sculptures in front of the panorama and the gardens of the Museo Vostell, with huge rocks that are integrated in the work. (Berta Sichel)...

THE DRESS

Ken Kobland
THE DRESS is a projection prop created for a performance piece at the Art Institute in 1984. It was installed in March 2021, suspended in front of a building on the Bowery as both a memorial to my grandmother, a Hungarian immigrant and master seamstress, and to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911, which occurred a few blocks north of this site. (EJay Sims)  ...

THE PENSIVE

Hubert Marécaille
Confronted with a complete lack of thoudht while visiting his unknown fatherʼs grave and present at a scene of arbitrary violence, an office worker ends up drunk to forget the cruelty of the world, the jacket over his head as a sign of denial... and an ephemeral victory on the life....

UN PONT SUR LA DRINA

Xavier Lukomski
Un pont sur la Drina (A Bridge over the Drina) is a documentary about the aftermath of the Bosnian war. The soundtrack consists of the monotone testimony of a man named Poljo Mevsud at the Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal...

VOYELLES

Hänzel & Gretzel
First published in 1883, Voyelles is one of Rimbaud best known poem. Several interpretations have been hypothesised, but none of them seems to be adequate to close the debate. Starting from the evocative power of the poem, Hänzel & Gretzel conceived a dreamy illustration of this famous poem...

MARCEL BROODTHAERS: MUSÉE D’ART DU XVIIE SIÈCLE

Jef Cornelis
Views of the 17th century ’Eagles Department’ in Antwerp: façade, wooden crates, postcards of 17th-century works on the walls and a small garden. Marcel Broodthaers is whitewashing the inscription ’Département des Aigles’ written on the fence in the garden...

DIMBU

Harald Thys - Jos De Gruyter
Starting off from the proposition: “If it’s possible to do 100 km in one hour, it must be possible to do 100.000 km in 1.000 hours”, a number of experiments are developed with the realisation of this axiom as a final purpose. Three experts report on the different tests with slides, overhead projections and video....