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

    Koen van den Broek

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    (c)photo: Studio Koen van den Broek, Merksem
    Louis Kahn, 2014
    Koen van den Broek
    Painting , 165 x 110 cm
    oil on canvas

    San Diego: we stand before the Salt Lake Institute, a major centre for stem cell research, housed in a beautiful building by the American star architect Louis Kahn. The building itself is not visible. Koen van den Broek photographs the shadow play. He falls for the beauty of the simple trough that splits the square symmetrically in two and that allows water to flow into the ocean over a long distance: a reference to the Yellow borders that are a theme in the work of Koen van den Broek. The link with Rimsky-Korsakov's opera Sadko is in the suspected presence of a port, and the main character’s relentless quest for a way across the water to find a connection with the mainland.

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