Shoeshine, Chocolate Bar
and other moving images from the collection
from 29.09.07
The museum recently acquired a number of substantial works in the field of film and video. For instance, we have now added The Chocolate Bar (2006), a 35mm film made by Bethan Huws (1961, Bangor, Wales), the BACA 2006 winner, to our collection. We also have in our collection the 2001 film Violetta by David Claerbout (1969, Kortrijk, Belgium), part of the Vandenhove couple’s wide-ranging collection of modern and contemporary art, now on long-term loan to the museum. Two of our most recent acquisitions are video works by the Mexican-Belgian artist Francis Alÿs (1959 Antwerp) Guards (2004) and Shoeshine (2004).
Enough reason, we felt, to take a closer look at the museum’s collection of moving images by grouping them in a dedicated arrangement, an arrangement chosen especially because the museum’s collection policy is not geared to specific media but rather based on powerful individual positions in art. Film and video are often part of a larger installation or form merely a single aspect of a multidisciplinary body of work. Works from the following artists are included in the collection: Pawel Althamer & Artur Zmijewski, Francis Alÿs, David Claerbout, Thomas Hirschhorn, Bethan Huws, Roman Signer, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Franz West.
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Enough reason, we felt, to take a closer look at the museum’s collection of moving images by grouping them in a dedicated arrangement, an arrangement chosen especially because the museum’s collection policy is not geared to specific media but rather based on powerful individual positions in art. Film and video are often part of a larger installation or form merely a single aspect of a multidisciplinary body of work. Works from the following artists are included in the collection: Pawel Althamer & Artur Zmijewski, Francis Alÿs, David Claerbout, Thomas Hirschhorn, Bethan Huws, Roman Signer, Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Franz West.
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| Francis Alÿs Guards, 2004 |
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| Francis Alÿs Shoeshine, 2004 |
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| Pawel Althamer & Artur Zmijewski So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes, 2003-2004 |
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| Bethan Huws The Chocolate Bar, 2006 |
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| Roman Signer Bett, 5-12-1996 |
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| Franz West Paßstücke, 1998-1999 |