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Shoeshine & Chocolate Bar

and other moving images from the collectie

29.09.07 - 06.01.08

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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	Francis Alÿs Shoeshine, 2004
	Pawel Althamer & Artur Zmijewski So genannte Wellen und andere Phänomene des Geistes, 2003-2004
	Thomas Hirschhorn Présentoir: les plaintifs, les bêtes, les politiques, 1995
	Thomas Hirschhorn Pilatus Transformator, 1997
	Bethan Huws The Chocolate Bar, 2006
	Roman Signer Bett, 5-12-1996
	Joëlle Tuerlinckx A stretch Museum Scale 1 : 1, een voorstel voor het Bonnefantenmuseum, Cinamazaal, 2001-2003
	Franz West Paßstücke, 1998-1999