Hofke van Chantraine Arts Center invites artist Koen Vanmechelen for the exhibition 'OutinG'. The group exhibition aims to put the art heritage of Oud-Turnhout more prominently on the map. The exhibition OutinG therefore shows works by artists who in recent years installed one or more works in the public space, including Philip Aguirre y Otegui, Koen Vanmechelen & Luk Van Soom.
Golden Cord
Vanmechelen is showing two works from his Golden Cord series; a series of hybrid works of phantasmagoric, fused animals. In OutinG, he brings a bronze sculpture and an intriguing collage of the platypus; an enigmatic mammal from Australia. With a duck head, legs with fish scales and a beaver tail, the animal seems composed of different animals.
The golden horn represents the umbilical cord of connection, a connection to the rest of the world. A golden membrane extending outward - the Golden Cord - reveals that they were born from a change of environment.
Vanmechelen made the fascinating drawing during an isolation required by COVID-19 regulations. The artist only used pencil, coffee and a pen. The golden cord, the unicorn, symbolizes breaking out of a state of quarantine. Breaking boundaries, a radical action, enters into a surprising and unknown hybridity. The omega of this process is the foundation of a new world, the potential of a new being. Dasein.
In Out Cycle Route
Tourism Oud-Turnhout also linked this exhibition to a bicycle route with which art prizes can be won. The bicycle route of 18 km takes the visitor along the 19 artworks that have been realized in Oud-Turnhout. The quest - like the exhibition - runs from Jan. 28 to Feb. 26, 2023.
Participating artists:
Philip Aguirre y Otegui
Maurice Brams
Constant Grooten
Hilde Heyns
Tinka Pittoors
Roland Rens
Jef Van Leeuw
Koen Vanmechelen
Marc Struyf
May Van Miert
Tijs Van Nieuwenhuysen
Luk Van Soom
Charles Vergouwen
Chris Wens
Exhibition facts
OutinG, artOut
Hofke van Chantraine Arts Centre
Kerkstraat 46
2360 Old Turnhout
0032 14 47 94 94
info@hofkevanchantraine.be
28/01 ➔ 26/02
Fri-Sat-Sun | 1.30 pm - 5 pm
other days: by appointment only
free entrance
