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: M HKA
    The Two Johns, 1988-1988
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 54 x 61 x 6 cm
    Wood, paint

    In the exhibition Pocahontas and the Little Carpenter, in London (1988), a small sculpture of a boy on a children's stool stood besides Pocahontas (a piece which later became La Malinche). The Two Johns refers to John Smith and John Rolfe, both Englishmen, key characters in the story of the Cherokee legend Pocahontas. The first John had been captured by Indians and was saved by Pocahontas. She was then herself captured by the English, converted to Christianity, and ended up getting married to a tobacco planter, John Rolfe.

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