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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    (c)image: Philippe De Gobert
    Un example, 1994
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 46 x 65 x 11 cm
    Wood, stone, papier maché, glass, coal expoxy

    Un example [sic] is a piece in which stones are organized in an atypical structure, forming what looks like an architectural unit. This artwork was part of Durham’s installation at the exhibition Architexture in 1994, an ensemble of works which figured at the starting point of Jimmie Durham’s anti-architecture discourse.

    “Most of nature in cities has been organized: for the un-hindered flow of different kinds of traffic and for the discipline that civilization believes is necessary. Cities are as stony, for example, as are hills and plateaux, but the stones are usually ordered into buildings, streets, curbs, monuments. They, like us, must work.” [full text here]

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