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

    Bernd Lohaus

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    ©Courtesy of the Estate Bernd Lohaus, photo: M HKA
    Ohne Titel (triptiek), 1971
    Bernd Lohaus
    Installation
    oil paint on canvas

    Bernd Lohaus trained as a sculptor, but nonetheless chose painting as a beloved activity.  Through his strategic use of colour, he investigated the spatiality of his pieces.  We may consider this series in the elemental colours of oxblood red, yolk-yellow and pigment-blue, more as conceptual art than as painting.  Lohaus's canvases are placed directly upon the ground; they do not have to be hung.  Their mere presence occupies the space, as it were.  

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