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

    Danny Matthys

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    ©Collectie M HKA / Donation from the artist
    Beneficio Guatemala, 2010
    Danny Matthys
    Collage

    During his career, Danny Matthys made several trips to Australia, where he drew on the old and new art of the aboriginals. Based on these influences, he developed a very personal pointillist technique, which he uses to rework older Polaroid art series and create more recent collages, applying the various ancient and contemporary aboriginal techniques.

    Since the early 90s, he makes what can be best described as a large, monumental mosaics out of tile shards. This process (which builds on older monumental collage work and his later pointillist technique) reveals a pronounced sense of indestructible timelessness.

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