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
A recent work by Van den Broek which fits the seasonal theme beautifully, even though it was not especially created for it. A curb and a pole with drop shadow which, by rendering them abstract, become the graphic elements that dictate the capabilities of the mental space which each canvas is. The red border makes a pendulum-like motion and leads to a dark area where the viewer does not know where it ends. The sign, which the post undoubtedly carries, is not readable. The components fail to indicate a clear direction. The perspective forces the eye in a direction, but the movement is a hindrance, a threshold. The red colour indicates danger. Yet, these are borders that invite to be exceeded or even ignored. A mental space which every spectator is bound to experience differently.