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

    Hugo Roelandt

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    (c)Photo: M HKA, 2016
    Naaktportretten / Nude Portraits, 1976
    Hugo Roelandt
    Photography
    ink, paper

    The installation is part of Research about the Actual Aesthetic Ideal. This project consisted of an installation and a performance. The installation featured 16 life-size black-and-white nude portraits of m and women, each photographed from both front and rear. Visitors were invited to create their ‘ideal’ body by completing a survey, asking them to assemble an ‘aesthetic ideal’. In an accompanying performance, Roelandt painted five nude models in vivid colours as they posed in stances reminiscent of Michelangelo’s statues. Through this project, Roelandt sought to challenge societal norms surrounding body image and the aesthetic standards imposed by both classical art and modern media. By doing so, he asks us to consider our individual standards and norms.

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