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HYBRIDS: Composite Creatures from Sagas, Myths and Legends, 2024

De Warande, Turnhout (BE)

Jun 8 - Nov 17, 2024

In biology, hybrid means the crossing of two different types of plants or animals.

Also the fantastic creatures from myths, sagas and legends are often hybrids composed of different, often very different animals. Not infrequently, they also appear to be a mixture of humans and animals. Such representations and descriptions of hybrid creatures are found in all cultures around the world and have existed since ancient times. Many we still know today and are immensely popular in movies, books and games. They are also an inexhaustible source of inspiration for contemporary artists.

'Hybrids: Composite Creatures from Sagas, Myths and Legends' tells the genesis of these wondrous creatures and how their significance evolved over time, and in different cultures. The exhibition brings together art, archaeological and ethnographic artefacts with natural history objects and curiosities from all over the globe.

About the sphinx, the centaur and the minotaur. About discoveries, forgeries, religion and superstition.

With works by Emma Ainala, David Altmejd, Roger Van Akelyen, Antoine Banier Abbé, Mohammad Barrangi, Tilo Baumgärtel, Fred Bervoets, Cristian Bors, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Jules Dalou, Bart Van Dijck/Ignace Cami, Jacques Callot, Nick Cave, Caroline Coolen , Thiemoko Claude Diarra, Gustave Doré, Albrecht Dürer, James Ensor, Max Ernst, Nick Ervinck, Xander Faes, Frans Floris, Maïder Fortuné, Conrad Gesner, Pascale Geulleaume, Charles De Geyter, Lucy Glendinning, Hendrick Goltzius, Axel Goossens, Francisco Goya, J.J. Grandville, Joos Habraken, Kati Heck, Wim Hermans, Grigorios Ilaridis, Quinten Ingelaere, Rahim Issaka, John Jonston, Karel Laenen, Tom Liekens, Eva De Leener, Viktor Leestmans, Hans Lemmen, Edward Lipski, Gaetano Lodi, Charlotte Lybeer, Koen Van Mechelen, George Méliès, Warre Mulder, Charles-Joseph Natoire, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Sharon Van Overmeiren, Michael James O’Brien, Imge Özbilge, Mu Pan, Bernard Picart, Tom Poelmans, Yannick Pollet, Jon Rafman, Odilon Redon, Antoine Rogiers, Félicien Rops, Pieter Paul Rubens, P. Gasparis Schotti, Guy Slabbinck, Léon Spilliaert, Helmut Stallaerts, Jan Švankmajer, David Teniers de Jonge, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Joel-Peter Witkin, Dominick Verschelde, Crispijn van de Passe

With loans from the collections of the Museums of Art and History, KMSKA, The Royal Library, GUM, Wereldmuseum Nederland, Musea Turnhout and various private collections, among others.

 
The exhibition was accompanied by the publication of a 256 p. full color book by the same name, published by HOPPER & FUCHS, with textual essays by Leen Huet (art historian) and Frank Herreman (former curator of the Ethnographic Museum of Antwerp).
EAN : 9789464002447

Curated by Tom Liekens and Glenn Geerinck.