M3 gallery, directed by Gianluca Ranzi, opened in Antwerp in January 2004.
The program of the gallery focuses on one hand on the work of young international artists and on the other presents new projects of artists belonging to Fluxus and Happening.
The concept of the gallery can be well represented by the words of Josef Brodsky: “Aesthetics is the mother of Ethics”. The common red thread that runs through the choices of the gallery has to do with the idea that art has a crucial role on an individual and social basis, abandoning dogmatic ephemeral aesthetical or conceptual positions to merge with needs and expectations of contemporary life. Art is intervention.
Most of the exhibiting projects are site-specific and conceived by the artists on the very occasion of the exhibition.
Antwerp is a city which has in recent years become one of Europe’s most active centers for contemporary art, embracing design, fashion, architecture and visual arts. A whole new generation of collectors and galleries has developed, promoting contemporary art, supported by Museums and institutional exhibiting spaces. The concept of the gallery is based on an idea of Europe where borders are losing their significance and art may be better suited than language to communicate the urge for contemporary values and attitudes by showing new visual propositions accessible to the eye and mind.
2009-11-12
M3 Gallery - Antwerpen
