{"id":4208,"title":"Ballroom Dancing","dimensions":"1050 x 750 mm","date_begin":"2007-01-01","material":"ink on paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":76,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"multiple silkscreen print","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eEd. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam Atelier Roger Vandaele, Antwerp 100 copies signed and numbered\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"BK7642_M407","stream_count_app":18,"permalink":"ballroom-dancing","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Luc Tuymans","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":"Print","nl":"Prent","fr":"Epreuve"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/011/665/large/Tuymans__Luc__Ballroom_Dancing__2007photo_M_HKAclinckx.jpg?1343387687","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003eBallroom Dancing\u003c/em\u003e, Luc Tuymans indicts American policy post 9/11.\u0026nbsp; The picture is of a spruced up young couple dancing, everything apparently clean and proper.\u0026nbsp; But this is mere fa\u0026ccedil;ade, and Tuymans wants to pierce it.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;I always took violence as a basic underlying structure in my work. The element of being afraid is a specific fascination.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t think art is derived from art, I think art is derived from reality.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe reality of Luc Tuymans\u0026#39; work is always a double one.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;At first sight we have a graceful, aesthetic and classic image but at the same time there are subtle references to post 9/11 or the era of Bush and the neocons.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eBallroom Dancing\u003c/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e, portrayed as well is the regression of American society of that period, the return to an overt form of conservatism.\u0026nbsp; The classic, blissful, romantic and innocent ballroom dance\u003c/em\u003e \u0026agrave; la Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, takes place above a marble floor with the seal of the state of Texas, where George Bush had been governor, where whites strut rednecked and Christian fundamentalism flourishes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eBallroom Dancing\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;neemt Luc Tuymans de Amerikaanse politiek na 9/11 op de korrel. Op de prent staat een piekfijn uitgedost jong koppel dat samen danst, alles ziet er schijnbaar proper uit. Het is een fa\u0026ccedil;ade, die Tuymans wil doorprikken.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;I always took violence as a basic underlying structure in my work. The element of being afraid is a specific fascination.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026ldquo;I don\u0026rsquo;t think art is derived from art, I think art is derived from reality.\u0026rdquo;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDe realiteit van Luc Tuymans\u0026#39;s werk is altijd dubbel. Op het eerste zicht lijkt het te gaan om een bevallig, esthetisch en klassiek beeld maar tegelijk wordt er subtiel verwezen naar het post 9/11 of tijdperk van de neocons of het Bushtijdperk.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn\u003cem\u003e Ballroom Dancing\u003c/em\u003e wordt de regressie in de Amerikaanse samenleving van die dagen, die terugkeer naar die openlijke vorm van conservatisme geportretteerd. Het klassieke, vrolijke, zwierige, romantische en onschuldige stijldansen \u0026agrave; la Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers vindt plaats bovenop het in marmer uitgebeelde zegel van Texas, waar George Bush gouverneur was, waar blanken zich profileren als rednecks, waar het christelijk fundamentalisme welig tiert .\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":129,"name":"Luc Tuymans","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}