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) Boris Golz
    I found these pieces of glass just outside what I believe must be the Villa Borghese, in Rome, 1997
    Jimmie Durham
    Mixed Media , 61 x 43 x 57 cm
    glass, paper, semi-precious stones, metal

    Jimmie Durham walks around cities looking for unexpected encounters and gathering things, as we can read in his text Nature in the City. In this artwork, a few pieces of semi-precious stones found by Durham in Rome are placed on a tray together with a handwritten text which does not intend to explain but rather give a new (narrative) dimension to these seemingly worthless stones.

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