Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
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
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Marlene Dumas
© Marlene Dumas — image: Syb'l. S. - Pictures
Sailor's Dream [from the “Pin-Up” series], 1996
"I use all the cheap tricks of attracting attention: eyes looking at you, sexual parts exposed or deliberately covered. The primitive pull of recognition. The image as prostitute. You are forced to say yes or no." Marlene Dumas
Marlene Dumas uses the human figure as a point of departure to develop a visual critique of contemporary racial, sexual and social identities. The watercolours from the ‘MD–Pin Up Series’ in the M HKA collection are based on Polaroids that Dumas took in a strip club in Amsterdam, and on photographs from various pornographic magazines. The female body is depicted in her characteristic raw, expressionist style with sombre tones.
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