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

    Luc Deleu

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    Collection Reuse NV, image: (c) M HKA
    Antwerp, your next cruise stop ! , 1990
    Luc Deleu
    Maquette , 151 x 280 x 280 cm
    Plastic, wood

    For Luc Deleu the field of visual art was the starting point for the search for a different kind of urban planning, especially one that would be critical, sociological and ecological. With his sometimes ironic, sometimes highly committed proposals, he comments on existing situations by formulating alternatives to them. Antwerp, your next cruise stop ! is the design proposal for a new cruise terminal in the port of Antwerp, an example of the many large urban infrastructure projects and utopian designs he has been working on. Bridging the city on both sides of the river, the terminal also includes a maritime museum. Along with the maquette, a series of drawings elucidate the proposal further. The proposal remains unrealised. It seems that Antwerp has thus far been a city of tunnels rather than bridges.

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