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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    (c)image: Nigel Davidson
    These Polished Stones Are from Brazil, 2005
    Jimmie Durham
    Assemblage , 100 x 78 x 1 cm
    polished stones, painted wood panel, text

    “Maria Thereza’s father (...) had the idea a couple of years ago to sell polished Brazilian semi-precious (oh, how I love that term!) stones in New York. He sent some to Maria Thereza to make photographs but then gave up the project, so I got some of the stones and used four of them in a work I made for the Reg Vardy Auto Sales Gallery. Those four stones really were only to illustrate (in a non-illustrative way) a text which was the printed version of a speech I gave in Porto Alegre (“Happy Port”) Brazil, earlier in 2005, at the World Social Forum.” [full text here]

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