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

    James Lee Byars

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    (c)image: M HKA
    Untitled, 1959
    James Lee Byars
    Other , 317.5 x 251.5 cm
    ink on Japanese paper on scroll

    "James is a little underestimated there. Very early on, he did things someone like Richard Serra has done after him. There are early untitled drawings in Japanese ink that show similarities with Serra's works on paper. He also did things in Japan of which one thinks: I wouldn't recognise JLB in that."

    Source: unpublished interview with Patrick Verelst.

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