ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ
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: Edo Kuipers
Confessional Hair and Dirt on Canvas Piece, 2006
An odd piece of black-painted canvas (with hair and dirt, so we’re told) hangs on the wall of the exhibition space. It comments on his own bizarre existence, while assuming his status as a work of art since made by an artist: “MR. DURHAM MADE ME WITHOUT STOPPING TO THINK OF HIS ART CAREER NOR, I AM SORRY TO SAY, THE SENSITIVITIES OF THE GENERAL ART PUBLIC”.
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