{"id":3786,"title":"The 15th History of the Human Face (The Children of Breughel)","dimensions":"140 x 210 cm","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"paper, ashes, cardboard, silkscreen","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"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":"BK6853_M144","stream_count_app":29,"permalink":"the-15th-history-of-the-human-face-the-children-of-breughel","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Eugenio Dittborn","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":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/007/250/large/Dittborn,%200001,%20Eugenio,%20The%2015th%20history%20of%20the%20Human%20Face%20%28The%20children%20of%20Breughel%29%20foto%20clinckx5.JPG?1331021197","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 15th History of the Human Face (The Children of Breughel)\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; one suite from Dittborn\u0026rsquo;s life-long art project \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Human Face\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; from 1993 was made on unprimed canvas. The work consists of four series of eight silk-screens, eight drawings made by psychiatric patients, eight photographs of convicted thieves from the thirties, eight forensic portraits of Chilean political prisoners, and eight drawings made by Dittborn\u0026rsquo;s own daughter. The \u0026lsquo;paintings\u0026rsquo; also contain text fragments, such as description from a drawing manual, an archeological description of a grave full of skeletons, an Indian poem, and a text written by a seventeenth-century Spanish priest named Rosales recounting his experiences living among the indigenous peoples of Chile. Each portrait was mailed off separately in an accompanying envelope carrying name and address of both sender and addressee. Lying on the floor amidst these wall works, finally, a thirty-third \u0026lsquo;drawing\u0026rsquo; made by Dittborn himself forms the crude outline of a house made from ashes: a conclusive allusion to the fragility of all dreams of homeliness longed for by each representative of the human species that adorns the surrounding walls.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe 15th History of the Human Face (The Children of Breughel)\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; \u0026eacute;\u0026eacute;n suite uit Dittborns levenslange project \u003cem\u003eThe History of the Human Face\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026ndash; uit 1993 is uitgevoerd op ongeprepareerd doek. Het bestaat uit vier reeksen van telkens acht gezeefdrukte afbeeldingen, 8 tekeningen van psychiatrische pati\u0026euml;nten, 8 foto\u0026rsquo;s van dievegges uit de jaren dertig, 8 robotfoto\u0026rsquo;s van Chileense politieke gevangenen en 8 tekeningen die werden gemaakt door Dittborns dochtertje. De doeken bevatten onder meer ook tekstfragmenten: een beschrijving uit een boek \u0026ldquo;Iedereen kan tekenen\u0026rdquo;, een archeologische beschrijving van gevonden skeletten, een Indiaans gedicht en een tekst van de zeventiende-eeuwse Spaanse priester Rosales over de Indianenbevolking die hij in Chili aantrof. Elk portret is apart verstuurd in een omslag waarop duidelijk leesbaar herkomst en bestemming zijn aangebracht. Op de grond temidden van deze werken, tenslotte, voerde Dittborn zelf de drie\u0026euml;ndertigste tekening uit die dit complexe werk centraal verankert: de rudimentaire *outline* van een huis, uitgevoerd in as. Een finale verwijzing naar de uiterst kwetsbare maar o zo noodzakelijke illusie van onderdak en behuizing waar de rondom opgehangen vertegenwoordigers van de menselijke soort zichtbaar van dromen.\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":748,"name":"Eugenio Dittborn","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}