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
    The Golden Tower, 1974
    James Lee Byars
    Other , 192 x 60.3 cm
    silkscreen on paper

    "Gold is religious and it’s alchemical. There’s a very beautiful sentence: Gold is the colour of love. I think it’s interesting. It’s such an abstract and unusual colour to experience in a very large scale. […] Gold is one of the most supernatural types of experiences for people."

    Source: James Lee Byars interviewed by Paul De Vree at documenta 7 at The Golden Tower.

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