Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

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    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK

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    (c)image: AMVK
    The Devil is a Busy Man, 1990
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Painting , 122 x 244 x 3 cm
    paint and plastic foil on forex on wood

    "A portrait of the businessman as a dandy-like Mephistopheles figure, inspired by a 1948 blues song with the same title, by Sunnyland Slim. I really like blues. With the wordplay 'the devil is a businessman' in mind. He does have something very tempting, such a businessman."

    − AMVK

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