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.

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    (c)image: AMVK
    Chairs with HeadNurse motive, 2005
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
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    "I re-upholstered 2 armchairs and 4 plain chairs of my grandmother in fabric with HeadNurse imagery. 

    Charles Baudelaire shouts the 2nd half of the 19th century: "Le Satanisme a gagné!” and opens dead-tired the gates for Modernism as we know it. Simulteneously in North America Pragmatism is born, a materialistic philosophy of the New World of which Richard Rorty will become, in 1979, the most extreme beholder. 

    1915: in Moscow Suprematism started with The Black Square of Kazimir Malevitsj. At the same time in France-USA there is The Big Glass of Duchamp, transparent, double-sided, never finished. Broken, it became an icon.
    1966: in New York  Barnett Newman shows: Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue. Abstract Expressionism.
    January 2004: in Ghent my interactive work Rorty The Headroom the last work of my HeadNurse-cycle, dealt with all these -isms, in particular with all the fearful esteems for symptotic spiritual creatures which mainly reflect wrong balanced organic structures.

    Where Descartes spoke about Suprematism of reason over feelings, Rorty had his view on Suprematism of reality over perception. And what about the digital?"     — AMVK

     

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