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: Fulvio Richetto
    Suggested Proposal for a New Architecture n°1, 2004
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 70 x 8 x 8 cm
    Stone, wood

    These proposals were first exhibited at the exhibition Le ragioni della leggerezza at Galleria Franco Soffiantino in 2004. Durham combines fragments of wooden furniture with stone and text and turns them into new objects. The lightness of the work is striking: Durham's proposal is diametrically opposed to the heavy monumentality of Western architecture. From the mid-1990s on, he takes astand against architecture and monumentality, seen as expressions of state power.

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