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
    Untitled (Squirrel), 1991
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 127 x 63 x 28 cm
    cast head, beads, paint, wood

    Untitled (Squirrel) is one of the remaining pieces of a legendary exhibition from 1991 called John Rollin Ridge, Zorro and the Joad Family Players at The Luggage Store in San Francisco. That show was a right after a law had recently passed by the U.S. Congress which obliged American Indian artists to obtain a certificate of their “Indian-ness” in order to be allowed to exhibit. Read here Jimmie Durham’s ironic text in response to this law.

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