Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
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
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Bernd Lohaus
(c)image: M HKA
This sculpture was made as Bernd Lohaus's entry for a competition to evoke a Monument for Otto von Bismarck, the 19th-century German statesman. A classical bust form is minimalized and the head's shape is reminiscent of a helmet. This plaster model would later also be cast in bronze.
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