ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ

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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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    image: (c) André Morin
    Shrouds and Swaddling Clothes of Decomissioned Saints, 1996
    Jimmie Durham
    Installation , 2 x (28 x 45 x 45 cm)
    Plastic, clothes, dirt, hair, glue

    "The Pope has been decommissioning a lot of saints, which I think is a nice idea. His problem is that he's making new saints. All the fascists in the world are now saints. I took two baskets of clothes, white shirts and things-they were all white—that I made dirty with a little bit of mud and hair and froze them with white glue so that they were hard. The piece is called Shrouds and Swaddling Clothes of Decommissioned Saints. The French said, “They’re not really Decommissioned”—no one could see the piece beyond that." [full text here]

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