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
    Orchid, 2013
    Luc Tuymans
    Print , paper: 73.5 x 56 cm , image 56.5 x 43.5 cm
    screenprint on Rives Arches 250 gr

    "Green is both a highly natural and highly artificial color. It seems to signify both organic growth and disintegration. The green color in the orchid painting is taken from a see-through-plastic notebook cover, so the flower is seen through an artificial filter. I've read that it is statistically proven that the semen of men is getting weaker and less fertile and that at the same time some plants' stamens have changed sex in order to survive. I see this flower as feminine." (Luc Tuymans)

    Aquisition on behalf of the Flemish Comunity. Orchid is a screenprint based on the well-known painting Orchid from 1998 .Printed by Tubbax, Antwerp under supervision of Roger Vandaele, ed. 80 + 5 AP.

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