Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven (also known as AMVK) is an artist of singular complexity. Born in 1951 in Antwerp, where she still lives and works, she has been active since the 1970s as a visual artist, graphic designer and performer. She has always been a pioneer. She should, first and foremost, be considered an artist for the future. AMVK’s practice is truly interdisciplinary.

    M HKA wants to introduce Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven to a wider audience as an innovator of forms and interpreter of moods - as oxygen of the whole society.

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    Respecting the Eternal Balance: Place= (Intelligence + Color):(Consciousness:Time), Shanghai, 2012
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Mixed Media , 101 x 115 x 15 cm
    lightbox piece, acrylic and collage on plexiglass in wooden frame

    "This series is about urbanism, rhythm and inner nature. All these works started from the ‘soul’ that I experience in a certain city or place where I have been or wanted to be in the past 20 years."

    − AMVK

    "...The common theme under which these lightworks are made is Respecting the Eternal Balance. The works deal with urbanity, rhythm and interiority and start from the soul felt by me in a certain place. These works shouldn’t give themselves away immediately, therefor the 3-dimensionality, visible layers and the possibility to look in. These works are going from the outside to the inside. On the one hand they deal with solidarity and universalism, with collectivity. On the other hand with urbanization and appropriation. Also with the pressure by the environment becomes this big on a living body that a language appears. It is the city and the place in general as a living organism, with a specific soul, that inspires. That soul can be linked with personal emotions but pulls as much its identity out of the variety of measurements, divisions, rhythms in buildings and streets, in urbanization, that define the character of a given city. It is the contemporary impact of the place on collective consciousness that I transform into transcendence." 

    − AMVK

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