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 Tuymans

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    (c)image: M HKA
    Het Gesprek [The Conversation], 1995
    Luc Tuymans
    Print , 50 x 63 cm
    Paper Hahnemühle 200 gr.

    These bodies have been reduced to a pair of shadowy silhouettes, joined together in a continuous form. While their features – along with other details, such as the position of a hand or a hint of a tie – are faintly visible beneath a wash of dark colour, the possible meaning of their congres scan only be guessed at based on their amplified body language. On the left, a curved spine and an outstretched hand, on the right, a rigid, formal bearing. With both content and context blocked out, Tuymans presents the bare envelope of social relations: a placeholder for communication. The original piece consisted of a collage affixed to the inside of a book cover that served as the basis for a later painting of the same motif.

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