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: Fulvio Richetto
For this artwork, made in 2004 on the occasion of the exhibition Reasons for Lightness, Jimmie Durham covered a rug with semi-precious stones - a definition which fascinates the artist. Also referred to as gemstones, “semi-precious” stones are rocks or minerals which are cut and polished in order to make jewelry. They are however classified in a category lower than those considered as the real precious stones such as diamond, sapphire and emerald.
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