Urgent Conversations: Athene – Antwerpen

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    De tentoonstellingen Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp en Dringende Gesprekken: Antwerpen – Athene zijn een samenwerking tussen het EMST en het M HKA, een theoretische en visuele dialoog tussen de werken uit de collecties van beide musea. Meer dan 70 werken worden samengebracht in 22 thematische clusters.

    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

    Guy Mees

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    ©Scan: CKV - Jef Verheyen Archive
    Guy Mees (left) and Jef Verheyen in the Tempeliershof in Weert, where they spent the summer together, painting and writing, 1959
    Jef Verheyen, Guy Mees
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    Away with paint. In the 1960s that is the slogan

    of Guy Mees. This avant-garde artist exchanges

    canvas and charcoal for industrially produced lace

    and neon lights. Whether they are round, square or

    triangular, these works all bear the enigmatic title

    Verloren Ruimte (Lost Space). Just like Verheyen,

    Mees plays with concepts such as space and

    light. In 1959 they both spend the summer at the

    Tempeliershof, an empty farm in Weert, where they

    work and write together. For Verheyen, Mees is

    ‘the painter who showed me the solution’ and

    questioned the definition of painting.

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