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
    Plates, 2012
    Luc Tuymans
    Print , 5 x (70 x 50 cm)
    portfolio of 5 lithographs on Velin d ‘Arches

    Aquisition on behalf of the Flemish Comunity. This series depicts ceramic plates from the artist’s personal collection. The dinner plates, Eastern European in origin, refer to the local ceramics industry that was once a symbol of national pride during the communist era. Ed of 50. Numbered and signed by the artist on the cover sheet of the portfolio.

    Series printed after the painting Plate of 2011. Plates is evoking the atmosphere of the bourgeois household, at the same time nostalgic and claustrophobic.These images point to the bourgeois environment with all their hidden secrets, sometimes trivial, sometimes terrible .

    For the exhibition, titled Allo! in 2012, Tuymans created a series of wall paintings especially conceived for the rotunda of the Meštrović Pavilion in Zagreb, based upon this suite of lithographs. 

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