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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    Image: (c) M HKA, Collectie M HKA, Schenking van de kunstenaar
    Brabantdam 59, Gent, Downstairs-Upstairs, 1975
    Danny Matthys
    Photography

    Both Brabantdam 59, Ghent, Stairs, Ground Floor, First and Second Floor and this work explore the possibilities of the photo series. In the first work the building is surveyed top to bottom and vice versa, in Brabantdam 59, Ghent, Downstairs-Upstairs a sectional view of the building’s staircase is presented.

    Brabantdam 59, Ghent, Downstairs-Upstairs consists of a double row of photographs. The upper row shows the trajectory from the bottom to the top floor, while the lower row shows the opposite trajectory. A figure can be seen in both rows, one climbing up, the other descending. At the halfway mark the two figures meet.

    In these series the experience of time and place is the actual subject of the work.

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