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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    Triptych as Sandwich in Red Granite and Belgian Mail Sack, 1995
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 11 x 47 x 29 cm
    red granite, belgian mail sack

    "I wasn’t even thinking about using stone, but I was thinking about what a triptych was, that it is like a sandwich. It has these two side things that you usually close and it’s the centre part that’s the roast beef. (...) What’s inside is an old Belgian mail sack that everyone in Belgium would recognize. That’s my favorite because it’s smaller and—I don’t remember—but there could still be a couple of letters inside. They would be the roast beef of the roast beef." [full text here]

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