Window on Infinity - Room Madonna 2.17

Ensemble

 

For Jef Verheyen, painting is like a liturgy. It is a celebration of colour. He is interested in the symbolism of colours, the emotions they evoke and the interaction between colour and meaning. A reproduction of Jean Fouquet's Madonna hung in his studio. Verheyen's diptych Lux est Lex hangs here beside that 15th-century masterpiece, a work that was originally part of a diptych. Both artists play with the contrast between blue and red, between cold and warm. The cherubim and seraphim become fields of colour. Verheyen's diptych is an homage to a painting that is so modern in character that it appears surreal. It could just as well have been painted today.

 

 

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The M HKA is a museum for contemporary art, film and visual culture in its widest sense. It is an open place of encounter for art, artists and the public. The M HKA aspires to play a leading role in Flanders and to extend its international profile by building upon Antwerp's avant-garde tradition. The M HKA bridges the relationship between artistic questions and wider societal issues, between the international and the regional, artists and public, tradition and innovation, reflection and presentation. Central here is the museum's collection with its ongoing acquisitions, as well as related areas of management and research.

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