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
    Self-Portrait as Rosa Lévy, 1995-2006
    Jimmie Durham, Maria Thereza Alves
    Photography , variable dimensions
    ink, paper

    Jimmie Durham’s Self-portrait as Rosa Lévy makes direct references to Marcel Duchamp. Firstly, Rosa Levy (the inexistent character incarnated by Durham) is an anagram of Duchamp’s Rrose Sélavy. The second reference, the artist’s pose and mustache, brings us finally to Duchamp’s L.H.O.O.Q., completing the homage to the French artist and to what he might represent for Jimmie Durham’s artistic persona.

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