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) Maria Thereza Alves
    New York Gitli, 1985-1985
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 120 x 29 x 70 cm
    Skull, braid, acrylic paint, shell, turquoise, metal

    Jimmie Durham lived in New York from 1973 to 1987 and, after a period of exclusive engagement with American Indian issues, re-started making art in 1980. There, he made a few shows such as The Manhattan Festival of the Dead and A Matter of Life and Death and Singing, where artworks like New York Gitli and Tlunh Datsi were exhibited. These two pieces, both made with ornamented animal skulls, are works where Durham mixes American identity with a Cherokee vocabulary (gitli means dog in Cherokee).

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