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

(c)image: M HKA
The Valley , 2012
Print , 71 x 72.5 cm
screenprint on paper

Aquisition on behalf of the Flemish Comunity. Screenprint in 7 colours on BKF Rives 300g/m² paper. Published by Graphic Matter, Antwerp. Printed by Roger Vandaele at Tubbax, Antwerp. Signed in pencil on reverse lower right. Edition of 75 signed and numbered in Arabic numerals. 10 AP.

This screenprint is part of a series on the power of the jesuits: Les Revenants. This ambiguous portrait of a young boy is based on a still from the film "The Village of the Damned" (an American sciencefiction/horror movie about children that are evil).