In Ghent this month, there\u2019s a conversation happening between two Belgian artists. At face value, they don\u2019t have much in common: they were born almost 600 years apart and their work shares few aesthetic traits. Yet Kris Martin and Jan van Eyck are bound with something deeper than time or...
From hot air balloons to silver-plated skulls, the conceptual artist’s deft anthological ideas are history in the makingIn Ghent this month, there’s a conversation happening between two Belgian artists. At face value, they don’t have much in common: they were born almost 600 years apart and their work shares few aesthetic traits.
. The concept goes straight to the point, if the point were turned on its head. Like much of his work, it’s a readymade Martin has cunningly tampered with; instead of magnifying objects, it makes them smaller. ‘When looking at people from a distance, they become minuscule, like ants. It shows the relativity of our existence on earth.’ The Ghent Altarpiece
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