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

    Jan Fabre

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    Burglaries & Street Fights, 1978
    Jan Fabre
    Performance , various duration

    Antwerp, docklands, Brasschaat & Schilde

    To collect material the young artist breaks into villas in the richer parts around Antwerp. He and his friends form the gang of Cartouche. The stolen goods are fenced to pay for art supplies or used in installations. 

    'I had to be active in different realities because at home there was no money to support going to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. So as a young guy I was raised on the street; to survive and to pay for all my materials for the Academy I went to work in the weekends in restaurants and also became a small resourceful gangster—breaking into villas and taking whatever valuables I could carry.' (source: Celant, G. Jan Fabre. Stigmata. Action & Performances 1976-2013. Skira, 2014, p.160)

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