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

    Panamarenko

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    (c)image: M HKA, Christine Clinckx
    Boela Matari, 2001
    Panamarenko
    Object , 30 x 40 x 15 cm
    wood, metal, clay, electric cells

    A final Archaeopteryx answers to the name Boula Matari.

    'And it's no accident that it was also my first little chicken that could really walk.' - Panamarenko

    The name literally means 'breaker of rocks', and was a nickname of the central-African explorer Henry Morton Stanley (°1841-1904).

    'A real macho man who trekked through the bush with a bible in one hand and a rifle in the other.  More than half his soldiers were felled by strange illnesses and infections, but that Stanley just kept on scouting around.  That's why I called my little archaeopteryx Boula Matari, because it's such a Courageous Strider!' - Panamarenko

    (source: Hans Willemse and Paul Morrens, in: 'Copyright Panamarenko', 2005)

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