After years of close friendship and close reading of each other’s work, Liam Gillick and Lawrence Weiner have finally made an artwork together. “A syntax of dependency:” occupies the first floor of the M HKA in Antwerp—a sort of indoor park interrupted by square columns and large wall openings from one room to the next. Nothing is on display here, at least not in the traditional sense: the only thing the artists have done is to give new flooring to this 1600 m2 space. Stretching out before the visitor like a strange empty basketball court, its wall-to-wall parallel strips of colored linoleum—red, yellow, black, white, gray—are covered sporadically with hints for the rules of the game played here: “That what / sets the stage / for what”; “Folded within itself”; “Outside of any given context.” Those rules—and that is the catch indicated by the title—are never absolute. Nothing exists without help, support or resistance; it’s one great endless syntactic connection. Different meanings and interpretations walk hand in hand, creating chains of causality and possibility, chains that are as easily broken as created. It is certainly no coincidence, for example, that the colors of the Belgian flag (black, yellow, red) are prominent …