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
    De 4 jaargetijden in Noorwegen, 1994
    Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK
    Series , 50 x 50 cm
    acrylic on cardboard

    (The 4 Seasons in Norway)

    "This was part of my graduation work in graphic design in 1974. I made a background drawing of a town in Norway, with clouds in which a kind of angel or goddess spins time. For every season, I provided a translucent Plexiglas plate with adapted colour changes and crops.

    As a small child, I really liked to walk through the plastic department of the Grand Bazar at Antwerp’s Groenplaats. All those replicas of objects in radiant colour ranges enchanted me. There was also my most artistic and very pretty aunt who in the 1950s completely dressed up her room in the parental house on the Turnhoutsebaan in Borgerhout with translucent plastic: that made a big impression on me.

    For a long time, I’ve read fairy tales, and in the Norwegian legends and legends I found an intriguing alternative to the Bible and its Genesis with Adam and Eve."

    − AMVK

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