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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    image: (c) M HKA, Collection M HKA
    Zwarte overall, 1991
    Jef Geys
    Photography , 187 x 132 x 4 cm
    photo

    The self-portrait Black Overalls is part of the series that Jef Geys showed on the 21st Biennale of Sao Paulo. The artist is looking for basic shapes that are simple in terms of structure, but are loaded with meaning at the same time. One of the triangles of the Star of David he is holding is coloured in in heraldic blue. Geys also overturns the image which society has of an artist by portraying himself in a register that is reminiscent of a prisoner, criminal or terrorist.

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