Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
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
Back
Jimmie Durham
image: (c) Maria Thereza Alves
Arc de Triomphe for Personal Use (Prague version), 2004
The first Arc de Triomphe for Personal Use was presented in Calais in 1996. Since then, a few versions of the “portable and collapsable arch” have been made by Durham. The artist’s parody of the idea of political power represented by monumental architecture is translated in this precarious structure made with poor materials, embedded here with artificial solemnity though the golden paint on the top.
Back