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

    Jef Geys

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    (c)image: M HKA
    ABC, Ecole de Paris [ABC, School of Paris], 1959-1961
    Jef Geys
    Installation , 7 x (135 x 90 x 5 cm), 7 x (137.7 x 92.1 x 5 cm), 157,2 x 129,5 x 4,5 cm
    mixed media, paper

    *ABC, Ecole de Paris* [ABC, School of Paris] is a wall installation made of 15 colored papers. Being a school teacher for years inspired Jef Geys’ image of society; a passion for equality, hierarchy, mastery, shapes and form. This and other installations refer to the Russian avant-garde. He aims art that goes beyond the artwork; art getting out of its borders and uses shape in a more radical way. He defines art as the intensity of daily life. As an artist he does what formally and conceptually relates to the real community; the community of Balen; his hometown.

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