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: Wim Van Eesbeek
    Vliegende schotel [Flying Saucer], 1979
    Panamarenko
    Object , 64.5 x 66.4 x 42.9 cm
    cardboard base with two copper coils, plexiglas flying saucers with eight magnets, compass and a typed, signed and dated statement

    Panamarenko believes that the development of space travel could be boosted significantly by relying exclusively on forces that already exist in the universe. He describes the magnetic fields in space as ‘cosmic highways’ that could be used to navigate between the planets. Panamarenko wants to build his magnetic spacecraft according to the principle of the monopole – a magnet with a single pole – which would be attracted by the opposite pole. Although many scientists deny that a magnetic monopole exists, Panamarenko persists in his quest for single-pole electrons, in the hope of one day finding his way to a magnetic field. The 1979 Flying Saucer experiment consists of two coils with copper wire, a small saucer with eight magnets and a compass. Panamarenko completed the installation with a typed statement of his space theory.

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