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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Panamarenko
(c)image: M HKA, Christine Clinckx
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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