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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Jacques Lizène
image: (c) M HKA, Courtesy Nadja Vilenne
Contraindre le corps à s’inscrire dans le cadre de la photo, 1971
"[Petit maître (Small Master)] is a desire to place myself materially in relation to the history of art. I would like art history to remember my name as a singularity. Because it's an – almost inaccessible – goal which allows me to play. It's a tease. It's also an important thing... for the history of art.
Trying to inscribe myself into the history of art, while the approach is a questioning of judgment, trying to get mediocrity accepted, it's a goal that can fill my days."
Jacques Lizène in : Que reste-t-il …
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