{"id":15585,"title":"Driftwood","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2015-01-01","material":"wood","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":4,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA,  Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"M00278","stream_count_app":53,"permalink":"untitled-tand","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/091/824/medium_500/Els_Dietvorst_M00278.jpg?1705412516","cached_actor_names":"Els Dietvorst","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/277/large/Els_Dietvorst_Tand_2016_M_HKA_.jpg?1492512278","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSkull\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;series are sculptures that are made to be symbolical metaphors for every war. The first sculpture was a huge skull, made of wood and loam, built\u0026nbsp;in Antwerp.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe next\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSkull\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was made on the roof of the M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp and was a reaction on the War on terror.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;In 2009, on the roof of M HKA in Antwerp, she exhibited the gigantic work Skull, a figure in a cage, fashioned from mud and wood. This powerfully visual work is Dietvorst\u0026rsquo;s way of reacting to the numerous images of war that the media floods us with. This specific work alludes to Guantanamo; to solitary confinement in cages. Dietvorst made a life-sized model of one of them, inhabited by a gigantic skull. On the roof of the museum, the head appears to be imprisoned in a dovecote, which can be viewed from a nearby bench. After a while, two pigeons built their nest in the cage and hatched out their eggs there \u0026ndash; thus a piece about murder facilitates the creation of new life at a totally different level\u0026hellip;\u0026rdquo;(source; Eva Wittocx, ED2)\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe third\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSkull\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was made in the biennal of Moscow. The form of the\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eSkull\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;was inspired by a skull of a neanderthal man that lived in Eurasia. In that time Neanderthalers and the new immigrants, the homo sapiens, lived peacefully together. This tooth\u0026nbsp;is the symbol for immigration, respect and human transcendence.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwee van deze sculpturen zijn een schenking van de Vrienden van het M HKA.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1504,"name":"Els Dietvorst","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}