Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
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
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Jimmie Durham
(c)image: Gert Jan van Rooij
A Piece of Concrete Wearing a Stone Mask and a Necktie, 1999
A piece of concrete, standing behind a colourful mask and wearing a flower-printed necktie, remains a piece of concrete. Jimmie Durham plays here with the incongruity of a piece of anonymous material made into a subject with personality by adding to it “human” props but always reminding us, through the use of language, of what we are really looking at.
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