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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    Head, 2006
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 25 x 45 x 45 cm
    wood, paper, hair, turquoise, metal tray, shell

    In 2006, the group exhibition Heads opened in London. According to Sprovieri Gallery’s press release, “much of the work in the exhibition has taken the purposelessness of making a portrait today as its point of departure. In dispensing with the history of the subject, the head assumes a peculiar versatility.” Jimmie Durham’s Head on a plate made for the same exhibition takes us closer to a more specific iconography: that of the head of St John the Baptist, regularly depicted with two heads, one attached to his body and another upon a plate either in his hands or at his feet.

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