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)image: M HKA
    190 # 1, 2004
    Koen van den Broek
    Painting , 100 x 150 cm
    oil, canvas

    Van den Broek mainly became known for his disorienting canvases of roadsides, sidewalks, gutters and other ‘horizontal’ boundaries and border areas. And while they are taken from the most banal of everyday reality, these canvases inevitably tend towards a hieratic abstraction. The figurative residue shimmers through even more explicitly in a series of related works, two examples of which have been acquired by the museum (one a gift of the artist): close-ups of a parched piece of land, or a road surface ridden by deep cracks. Maybe the perspective changes, but in his works ‘190#1’ and ‘190#2’ (both from 2004), Van den Broek remains true to the structural leitmotif in his oeuvre: that of the ground from which the world that we inhabit and navigate, arises.

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