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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    Do we feel with our brain and think with our heart?, 2013
    Jan Fabre
    Performance

    2013, Parma

    Here the artist is in conversation with the Italian professor Giacomo Rizolatti, the scientist who discovered the mirror neurons with which we perceive empathy. Fabre’s famous marble sculptures Pietas are based on this discovery. 

     

    'It is now three in the morning.
    This time I can't sleep
    because my mirror neurons are still
    floating around and dancing with delight.
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    The whole day, during the film shoot, enjoyed
    the open mind and playful performance
    by the marvellous Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti.
    What lovely people.
    The searching and discovering man.'

    (Jan Fabre,Parma, 29 November 2012)

     

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