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
    A Stone Asleep in Bed at Home, 2000
    Jimmie Durham
    Installation , 200 x 155 x 101 cm
    grey granite, cotton, chestnut wood, pinewood

    For Durham, boulders are the ultimate sculptural form, because each boulder is in itself a changing sculpture that is shaped by the elements in the course of time. He is fascinated by the personality of boulders, the ways in which a static object can become active, like a character in a story.

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