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
(c)videostill: Hugo Roelandt, 1976 - Courtesy Estate Hugo Roelandt, Antwerp
Roelandt saw art as a temporary event - a performance - that could be documented via photo and video. An archive full of photo prints and negatives, films, videos, sound recordings, and the most diverse objects used in it was the result. In the film 'Painting a still life' he played with the traditional way of presenting. He colored black-and-white photographs or painted everyday objects.
