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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    (c)image: Syb'l S. Pictures
    9 Insectenobjecten, 1977-1979
    Jan Fabre
    Installation , 90 x 130 x 65 cm

    Insects have been ubiquitous in Jan Fabre’s work right from the start. At the age of twenty, at the end of the seventies, he made drawings of insects and transformed them into surreal objects or hybrid beings. The bodies and movements of these strange creatures continue to inspire his later work. Spiders, beetles and cocoons act as a metaphor for miraculous transformations and endless cycles of birth, death and rebirth. Fabre uses insects as in-between creatures and messengers to convey his unique world-view to his audience.

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