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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    image: (c) Maria Thereza Alves
    Xitle and Spirit, 2007
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , variable dimensions
    vulcanic stone, car, acrylic paint

    In the year 82 AD, the volcano Xitle erupted in Mexico and destroyed a whole city called Cuicuilco (which translates to “place of singing and bright dancing”). Jimmie Durham brought a stone by truck to the street called Xitle. A machine was hired to lift it.

    “Centimeter by centimeter, encouraging the machine like it was an over- loaded donkey, they edged the stone towards the dark Spirit. With the insouciant grace of experts they convinced their little machine towards heroism. The stone weighs about 8 tons. It rests well and safely on the Dodge Spirit.”[full text here]

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