Hans Theys

Hans Theys ist Philosoph und Kunsthistoriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er schrieb und gestaltete fünzig Bücher über zeitgenössische Kunst und veröffentlichte zahlreiche Aufsätze, Interviews und Rezensionen in Büchern, Katalogen und Zeitschriften.

Diese Plattform wurde von Evi Bert (M HKA : Centrum Kunstarchieven Vlaanderen) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerpen (Forschungsgruppe ArchiVolt), M HKA, Antwerpen und Koen Van der Auwera entwickelt. Vielen Dank an Fuchs von Neustadt, Idris Sevenans (HOR) und Marc Ruyters (Hart Magazine).

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(c)image: M HKA, Christine Clinckx

Boela Matari, 2001

Panamarenko

Object , 30 x 40 x 15 cm

wood, metal, clay, electric cells

A final Archaeopteryx answers to the name Boula Matari.

'And it's no accident that it was also my first little chicken that could really walk.' - Panamarenko

The name literally means 'breaker of rocks', and was a nickname of the central-African explorer Henry Morton Stanley (°1841-1904).

'A real macho man who trekked through the bush with a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other. More than half his soldiers were felled by strange illnesses and infections, but that Stanley just kept on scouting around. That's why I called my little archaeopteryx Boula Matari, because it's such a Courageous Strider!' - Panamarenko

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