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

    Jacques Lizène

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    image: (c) M HKA, Courtesy Nadja Vilenne
    Contraindre le corps à s’inscrire dans le cadre de la photo, 1971
    Jacques Lizène
    Photography , 76 x 89 cm
    30 zwart-wit foto's

    "[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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