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

    Jimmie Durham

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    ©Courtesy of Christine König Galerie, Vienna
    The Tower Was Equipped with a Glass Safety Shield, 2006
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 66 x 30 x 17 cm
    Mixed media

    On a peculiar tower made of sculpted wood stands a figurine protected by a “glass safety shield”. This piece, made for the exhibition Glass in Vienna in 2006, is a play with a material which according to Jimmie Durham, is “so hard, yet so breakable!” and therefore not appropriate as a shield.

    See more of Durham’s comments about glass on the exhibition page and on a handwritten note from 1995.

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