After all, college is an eye-opening experience for most students. M HKA is determined to extend this exercise in the years to come, and so even further enhance the visitor’s experience.If you’re suddenly wondering, “Can someone do my paper for me?”, there’s likely a very good reason for that. In this way, visitors are just 1 click away from this informative database as they amble through the exhibition rooms. Production unit, curators, procurement policy (external as well): each has its role to play. The content comes directly from the ‘ensemble bank’, a broadly-supported working platform that encourages diverse layers of meaning around the artworks.

This public version is no island unto itself it is enframed within a larger digital whole. The application has been fully developed in-house at the M HKA, and is easily accessible via a wide range of devices: smartphones, tablets and desktop computers. With the help of these new media, our aim is to offer our artworks a better and fuller array of support for their presentation and public understanding. The M HKA Ensembles represent our first steps towards initiating the public to today's art-related digital landscape. The further development of Mesmer’s ideas led to the first observations of hypnotism in 1842. His theory suggests that a natural transference of energy exists between all animated and inanimate objects. German physician and astrologer Franz Friedrich Anton Mesmer theorised animal magnetism or mesmerism.

Mesmeric Revelation can also refer to the title of a short story, written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1844. By confronting us with simple things from our daily lives, Swennen hopes to awaken our imagination. He offers his viewers some tools, but no ready-made explanations. Painting provides a way of analysing the relationships between symbol and allegory, the ‘readable’ and the ‘visible’ image, meaning and loss of significance.īut the thing that really interests Swennen is the effect his work has on us. The line between image and text is never far away in Walter Swennen’s work. Collection: M HKA / Vlaamse Gemeenschap (Inv.

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