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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Guy Mees
© the artist — Photo M HKA
Mees’s work is systemic, yet the system emerges from within the work itself. The precision of his oeuvre — with interlocking elements from painting, sculpture, and performance, in which colour, texture, and the experience of space are paramount — is of an order that resists verbal definition. In the 1980s, Mees creates works with cut-out pieces of coloured paper, pinned against the wall or another surface like painterly gestures, forming a kind of ‘lost spaces’.
Read more about this work here.
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