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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James Lee Byars
(c)image: M HKA
Extra-Terrestrial, ICC Antwerp, 1976
"He was always looking for perfection. [...] When we made this exhibition, I wanted to make a catalogue raisonné with an overview of everything he had done so far. Lieve had started to collect all the material. She spent a few months doing that. When James came, he said, 'Yes, but I want a one-page catalogue.' I had written a text, but it had to be reduced to a small square. It drove Lieve crazy. Typically James."
Source: interview with Flor Bex and Lieve De Deyne by Els Hoek.
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