Edith Clever
Cinematic Portrait, 2023
Digital film file
4K, 7 min
The cinematic portrait of Edith Clever at the "end of her career" shows the actress' bold resoluteness. At first glance, you see a static image-a close-up of a face in deep concentration. Initially, it is only her eyes that open slowly, thus indicating a slight shift in emotion. Extremes are avoided, and this is precisely what attunes our awareness to a cosmos of hope, melancholy, sadness, contentment and peace. Finally, her eyes close decisively and without haste. The game starts anew.
Featured in the ‘Luc Tuymans - Edith Clever’ exhibition at the Akademie der künste at Pariser Platz, Berlin, Germany.
On view from 15 September until 26 November 2023
15/09/2023
Installation view
Five Car Stud 2018
Documentary film on digital cinema.
video, color, sound, 15"37'
Courtesy of the artist
The installation Five Car Stud (1969-72) by Edward Kienholz, seen by Luc Tuymans in the exhibition dedicated by Fondazione Prada to the work of Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz in 2016-17, was seminal for the conception of this exhibition. In this work , Luc Tuymans recognises an aspect of overwhelming violence that makes it an emblematic piece in terms of the relationship between Baroque painting and contemporary art. Five Car Stud was included in the first version of “Sanguine” held at the M HKA in Antwerp...
C-prints on Blueback paper Various sizes
Edition of 1
For ten days solid, a selection of Belgian fashion designers and artists present their work in shop windows and surprising locations all over the city of Antwerp. Taking the general idea of a shop window to the creative limit, the participants will work around the theme MUSIC / SOUND together with curator Senjan Jansen.