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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    Hommage à Filliou 2, 2003
    Jimmie Durham
    Installation

    "The show [at the Venice Biennale, 2003] was curated by the artist Gabriel Orozco, with the instruction that we would attempt to make spontaneous and quotidian pieces, things with a strange common-ness. I found a piece of grey PVC pipe that had so much pigeon dung on it that it looked like a stalagmite formation.

    I then placed it along with the sign, (...) “Please do not shit on this piece,” next to a work by another artist which had the warning, “Please do not sit on this piece.” My real work in the show was called Homage to Robert Filliou, so I called the joke piece Homage to Robert Filliou 2, because I thought it had something of the spirit of some of Filliou’s work." [full text here]

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