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
    Liberty #1, 2012
    Koen van den Broek
    Painting , 180 x 120 cm
    oil on canvas

    The artist takes a trip. Away from the rigidity of his usual patterns and muted tones of his colour palette. He captures a moment of joy when he boards the Staten Island ferry in New York. It has been raining and a somewhat whimsical rainbow forms on the wet asphalt that cuts through the word 'liberty' written in bronze letters on the road. A rare phenomenon, which means this image immediately adopted a symbolic value for Van den Broek. Another work from the same series (Liberty #3) is the production image for Choreolab, an experimental programme whereby the dancers present their own creations in complete freedom and in an uninhibited manner.

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