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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    (c)image: Philippe De Gobert
    Les faux-tarots des franc-plombiers, 1994
    Jimmie Durham
    Installation , variable dimensions
    paint, canvas

    On-going project, started in 1994 at the exhibition Architexture in Antwerp. The framed watercolour drawings are presented in the form of crosses.

    “Italo Calvino, if he had been in Marseille with Sandra Cattini and I after the crusades had ended, could have explained that the “Faut Tarot” of the Franc-Plombiers were actually older and more authentic in spirit than other inspirational, historical, or fortune-telling devices, because one may use them for architectural instruction”. [full text by Jimmie Durham bellow]

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