{"id":19905,"title":"Nocturnal Garden Scene","dimensions":"162 x 221 x 130 cm","date_begin":"2005-01-01","material":"metaal, steen, zand","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collectie S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":13,"permalink":"nocturnal-garden-scene","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":"http://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/041/431/medium_500/WP_2014-_0102.jpg?1532522306","cached_actor_names":"Mark Manders","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/041/431/large/WP_2014-_0102.jpg?1532522306","poster_credits":"collectie S.M.A.K., Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, image: (c) Willy Peeters","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eMark Manders is a Dutch artist, living and working in Belgium. Since the late eighties, Manders is working on a project he calls \u0026lsquo;self-portrait as a building\u0026rsquo;. All his later works are fragments of this imaginary house, which contains the artists dreams, thoughts, fears and memories. Manders\u0026rsquo; architectural approach to self-results is an art form that uses sculptures as physical interpretations of intimate emptions. Besides the spatial aspect (vagueness), time (indeterminacy) is also an important concept in Manders\u0026rsquo; work.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThrough his obsession with time, Mark Manders is constantly looking for ways to circumvent or play with this dimension. He can freeze it, but also split it up into moments. In \u003cem\u003eNocturnal Garden Scene \u003c/em\u003ea cat and a loose hanging piece of string are placed in the same moment on the same spot in an obscure and perplexing scene. The choice to split the cat in two, was a logical choice for the artist\u0026nbsp; - the perfection and the tension of the hanging piece of string dissapears once cut into two, while the cat will always be a cat, regardess of the fact that it is in one piece or split in two. \u0026nbsp;This is Manders\u0026rsquo; way of questioning the way humans give meaning and significance to objects and their surroundings. Additionally this is the artists\u0026rsquo; way of researching the boundaries of giving meaning to objects.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eMark Manders is een Nederlander, maar leeft en werkt in Belgi\u0026euml;. Reeds sinds de late jaren tachtig werkt Manders aan wat hij zijn \u0026lsquo;zelfportret als gebouw\u0026rsquo; noemt. Alle latere werken vormen dan ook fragmenten van dit imaginaire huis waarin de kunstenaar zijn dromen, gedachten, angsten en herinneringen onderbrengt. Dit architecturale concept van het \u0026lsquo;ik\u0026rsquo; resulteert bij Manders in een kunst die sculptuur begrijpt als een ruimtelijke materialisering van intieme emoties. Naast de ruimte (onbestemdheid), is ook tijd (onbepaaldheid) een belangrijk concept in Manders\u0026rsquo; werk.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eVanuit zijn obsessie met tijd is Mark Manders voortdurend op zoek naar manieren om deze dimensie te omzeilen of te bespelen. Hij kan ze bevriezen, maar hij kan momenten net zo goed opsplitsen. In \u003cem\u003eNocturnal Garden Scene\u003c/em\u003e bevinden een kat en een slap hangend touw zich precies op hetzelfde moment op dezelfde plaats in dit obscure en bevreemdende tafereel. De keuze om de kat in twee\u0026euml;n te delen was voor de kunstenaar evident - de perfectie en de spanning van een hangend koord verdwijnt immers als het versneden wordt, terwijl de kat nog steeds een kat is. Op die manier tast Manders de grenzen van betekenisgeving af en bevraagt hij de manier waarop de mens zijn omgeving benoemt en beduidt.\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":758,"name":"Mark Manders","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}