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)Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris / Thierry Langro
    A Stone Rejected by the Builder (1), 2006
    Jimmie Durham
    Sculpture , 34 x 41 x 20 cm (stone), 55 x 48 x 35 cm (table)
    stone, wood, acrylic paint

    The two pieces entitled A Stone rejected by the builder (1 and 2, link bellow) are stone blocks that have been abandoned by Arno Brecker, Hitler’s favourite artist, in his atelier in the Grünewald Forest - which many years later became Jimmie Durham’s own atelier. The act of painting it (here in flashy pink and green, and in the second version in red) adds to these objects a new dimension. They gain a new, lighter, almost childish connotation, in opposition to their heavy association with the Nazi artist.

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