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Alon Levin, Or Why Not Celebrate the Past Before the Future Will Come (Accounts of a happening I, II and III), 2010, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, M

‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015 © We Document Art

‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015 © We Document Art

Ciprian Mureşan, Dead Weights, 2012-2014, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem

Hans van Houwelingen, Scale Model for the XXth Olympic Wintergames, Turin, 2006, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015

Michèle Matyn, Les Faux, 2014, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015 © We Document Art

Navid Nuur, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015 © We Document Art

Paola Yacoub, Anti-monochrome, 2014, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015 © We Document Art

Pavel Büchler, Geometry, Physics and Science of Life, Part III, 2014, in ‘Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around’ (a project of Extra City Kunsthal), installation view, Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, 2014-2015 © We Doc

Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around

Part II

26.10.14 — 29.03.15

Group exhibition

Curated by Mihnea Mircan

Participating artists Pavel Büchler, Dan Graham, Hans van Houwelingen, Alon Levin, Ann Veronica Janssens, Michèle Matyn, Dóra Maurer, Ciprian Muresan, Navid Nuur, Miklós Onucsán, Erin Shirreff, Paola Yacoub

This group exhibition, at Extra City (until 7 December 2014) and at Middelheim Museum (until 29 March 2015), takes the prehistoric Gwion Gwion paintings from Western Australia as mental model. Recent research has established that these paintings are alive, colonized by red bacteria and black fungi, ‘living pigments’ that maintain the chromatic vividness of the figures: the Gwion Gwion paintings are as much a product of prehistory as they are made now. The exhibition assembles modern and contemporary artworks in response to these paintings’ materiality, meaning and time.

Part I. Allegory of the Cave Painting
Extra City (20.09 — 07.12.2014)

Part II. Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around
Braem Pavilion, Middelheimmuseum(26.10.2014 — 29.03.2015)

The exhibition at Extra City approaches the Gwion Gwion paintings as an organism that extends across time and space and reflects on methods of making and thinking about pictures, on the scenographies of light and shadow that accompany myths of the origin of painting and the birth of knowledge. The central aspect of the exhibition in the Middelheim Museum - as second part of the exhibition in Extra City - is the dialectic of intimacy and knowledge of our relation with art objects. 'Allegory of the Cave Painting. The Other Way Around' assembles contemporary artworks that dialogue with artists from the museum’s collection, like Dan Graham, Ann Veronica Janssens and Medardo Rosso.


Book launch with a performance by Jeremiah Day and a film by Tacita Dean
18.03.2015, 20:00 at Cinema Zuid

Location , Middelheimlaan 61, 2020 Antwerpen

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