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: Maria Thereza Alves
    Articles 2 and 3 from the 1986 Pinkerton's Agency Manual, 1989
    Jimmie Durham
    Installation , 132 x 24 x 24 cm
    Ceramic, wood, paper, polyester

    The Pinkerton National Detective Agency is a private law enforcement organization founded in 1850 in the United States. It has become famous for preventing a plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln as well as for serving as a service for businessmen who in the 19th and early 20th century wanted to control and intimidate their employees. “In Ludlow, Colorado, sent a train-load of Pinkerton men to kill the striking miners. Mr. Rockefeller did it.”, reveals the text in Durham’s artwork Miscellaneous Ludlow Characters. In the piece Articles 2 and 3..., Jimmie Durham articulates his commentary combining its political dimension with a cartoon-like sculpture and handwritten text, creating a complex and paradoxical statement.

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