e-flux Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Two new exhibitions Museumlaan 14 9831 Deurle tel. +32.9.282.51.23 fax +32.9.281.08.53 info@museumdd.be http://www.museumdd.be Opening hours: tu-fr 13-17h; sat-sun 11-17h; closed on Mondays Image: Graphic Design, Inge Ketelers; Courtesy MDD (Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens), Deurle, Belgium MDD Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens Museumlaan 14 9831 Deurle tel. +32.9.282.51.23 fax +32.9.281.08.53 info@museumdd.be http://www.museumdd.be Opening hours: tu-fr 13-17h; sat-sun 11-17h; closed on Mondays 16.02 – 30.03.2003 SWITCH – on reversibility Elke Boon (B), Cel Crabeels (B), Bojan Fajfric (Y), Damien Hirst (GB), Svetlana & Igor Kopystiansky (R) Curator Edith Doove SWITCH is oriented towards the principle of reversibility. What seems very simple and immediate gets an unexpected meaning that sometimes can be quite the contrary of the first impression that we have of an artwork. In this sense the exhibition on the one hand removes itself from an exaggerated, documentary focus within contemporary art and on the other hand it builds forth on the achievements of this tendency. Some works may at first appear to be purely documentary, but added notions of fear, power, beauty and a critical view on society, reveal a different approach. The so called “Butterfly Effect”, that was first described by the meteorologist and mathematician Edward Lorenz, in this sense certainly is an important influence. He discovered that the predictability of the weather is not directly proportional to the amount of collected information. He expressed the degree of unpredictability in his statement that a butterfly that flutters its wings could cause a tornado on the other side of the world. FOCUS 1 James Ensor, Jan Toorop, Valerius De Saedeleer en others Guest Curator Robert Hoozee (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent) In answer to an exhibition that looks for contemporary metaphors and symbols, a selection is made of some paintings and sculptures from the museums collection that in their time had a very clear metaphorical meaning. Modernistic aesthetics taught us to look at art in a meaningless way. Today we try once more to conjure up the context, the representation and the story behind artworks. This focus exhibition invites the visitor to ask himself whether the selected works still have a deeper meaning and which metaphorical or symbolical language they speak.