{"id":9530,"title":"Het hoofd van Holofernes, Boston","dimensions":"590 x 786 mm","date_begin":"1973-01-01","material":"etching on paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":76,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp / Donated by Adriaan Raemdonck, 2014","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"S0491_27","stream_count_app":20,"permalink":"het-hoofd-van-holofernes-boston","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Jan Cox","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Print","nl":"Prent","fr":"Epreuve"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/020/624/large/Cox_Jan_ZT_1973_photo_M_HKA23.jpg?1392198159","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Jan Cox told stories because he considered life to be a linked chain of stories. He therefore frequently presented the content of his paintings in the shape of the ancient images and ancient narratives that the classic myths, but also the Bible, offered him as the foundations of Western culture. He painted various works and also real series based on ancient narratives of for example Orpheus, the Iliad and Judith and Holofernes. This had nothing to do with literature, but everything to do with life: the works were not illustrations for those stories, the stories enabled the artist to penetrate and visualise life. \u0026lsquo;Myths are the instruments by which we continually struggle to make our experience intelligible to ourselves. A myth is a large controlling image, that gives philosophical meaning to the facts of ordinary life: that is, which has organizing value for experience\u0026rsquo;, he taught his students. In the traditional and therefor\u0026nbsp; generally known narratives Cox not only found what was in human nature in a kind of intensified and timeless form. They also enabled him to take topical and generally personally experienced, sometimes even anecdotal, events to a more universal and universally understandable plane. In the context of this crisis of civilisation and his personal problems, it should therefore not be surprising that stories on the tragic failure of mankind and his culture appealed most to him\u003ca href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\r\n\u003chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" /\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"ftn1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e Marijke Van Eeckhaut in:\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eJan Cox. Living One\u0026rsquo;s Art\u003c/em\u003e, Stichting Kunstboek, Group Van Damme, Oostkamp, 2008, p.\u0026nbsp;221\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026ldquo;Jan Cox vertelde verhalen omdat hij het leven als een aaneenschakeling van verhalen beschouwde. Hij presenteerde de inhoud van zijn schilderijen dan ook dikwijls in de gedaante van de oerbeelden en oerverhalen die de klassieke mythen, maar ook de Bijbel hem boden als de fundamenten van de westerse cultuur. Hij heeft verschillende werken en ook heuse reeksen geschilderd naar de aloude verhalen over onder meer Orpheus, de Ilias en Judith en Holofernes. Dit had niets met literatuur, maar alles met het leven van doen: de werken vormden geen illustraties bij die verhalen, de verhalen stelden de kunstenaar in staat om het leven te doorgronden en te visualiseren. \u0026lsquo;Myths are the instruments by which we continually struggle to make our experience intelligible to ourselves. A myth is a large controlling image, that gives philosophical meaning to the facts of ordinary life: that is, which has organizing value for experience\u0026rsquo;, zo hield hij zijn studenten voor. In de traditionele en daardoor alom bekende verhalen trof Cox niet alleen alles wat des mensen was in een soort verhevigde en tijdloze vorm, ze stelden hem ook in staat om actuele en meestal persoonlijk beleefde, soms zelf anekdotische gebeurtenissen op een meer universeel en universeel begrijpbaar niveau te tillen. In de context van de beschavingscrisis en zijn persoonlijke problematiek hoeft het dan ook niet te verwonderen dat de verhalen over het tragische falen van de mens en zijn cultuur hem het meeste aanspraken\u003ca href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\r\n\u003chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" /\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"ftn1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e Marijke Van Eeckhaut, \u003cem\u003eJan Cox. Profiel van een kunstenaarschap\u003c/em\u003e, Stichting Kunstboek, Group Van Damme, Oostkamp, 2008, p.\u0026nbsp;222\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u0026quot;Jan Cox racontait des histoires parce qu\u0026rsquo;il consid\u0026eacute;rait la vie comme une succession d\u0026rsquo;histoires. Aussi pr\u0026eacute;sentait-il souvent le contenu de ses tableaux sous la forme d\u0026rsquo;images arch\u0026eacute;typales et de r\u0026eacute;cits ancestraux que lui offraient les mythes classiques, mais aussi la Bible en leur qualit\u0026eacute; de fondements de la culture occidentale. Il a peint diff\u0026eacute;rentes \u0026oelig;uvres et de v\u0026eacute;ritables s\u0026eacute;ries d\u0026rsquo;apr\u0026egrave;s des r\u0026eacute;cits antiques comme, entre autres, Orph\u0026eacute;e, l\u0026rsquo;Iliade et Judith et Holopherne. Cela n\u0026rsquo;avait rien \u0026agrave; voir avec la litt\u0026eacute;rature, mais tout avec la vie\u0026nbsp;: les \u0026oelig;uvres ne constituent pas des illustrations de ces r\u0026eacute;cits, mais ces r\u0026eacute;cits permettent \u0026agrave; l\u0026rsquo;artiste de sonder et de visualiser la vie. \u0026laquo;\u0026nbsp;Les mythes sont des instruments avec lesquels nous sommes continuellement aux prises pour rendre notre exp\u0026eacute;rience intelligible \u0026agrave; nous-m\u0026ecirc;mes. Un mythe est une image qui exerce un grand contr\u0026ocirc;le et donne aux faits de la vie ordinaire du sens philosophique, c\u0026rsquo;est-\u0026agrave;-dire une valeur organisationnelle pour l\u0026rsquo;exp\u0026eacute;rience\u0026nbsp;\u0026raquo;, expliquait-il \u0026agrave; ses \u0026eacute;tudiants. Dans les r\u0026eacute;cits traditionnels et de ce fait connus de tous, Cox ne rencontre pas seulement tout ce qui rel\u0026egrave;ve de la nature humaine sous forme exacerb\u0026eacute;e et intemporelle, mais aussi la possibilit\u0026eacute; de hisser des \u0026eacute;v\u0026eacute;nements actuels et souvent personnels, parfois m\u0026ecirc;me anecdotiques, sur un plan plus universel et plus universellement compr\u0026eacute;hensible. Dans le contexte de la crise de civilisation et de ses probl\u0026egrave;mes personnels, il n\u0026rsquo;est pas surprenant que ce soient les r\u0026eacute;cits d\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;checs tragiques de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026ecirc;tre humain et de sa culture qui l\u0026rsquo;int\u0026eacute;ressent le plus\u003ca href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u0026nbsp;\r\n\u003chr align=\"left\" size=\"1\" width=\"33%\" /\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"ftn1\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\"\u003e[1]\u003c/a\u003e Marijke Van Eeckhaut, \u003cem\u003eJan Cox. Profiel van een kunstenaarschap\u003c/em\u003e, Stichting Kunstboek, Group Van Damme, Oostkamp, 2008, p.\u0026nbsp;222\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1795,"name":"Jan Cox","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}