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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    Flying Cigar Called Flying Tiger, 1980
    Panamarenko
    Object , 44 x 145 x 41 cm
    plywood, coper wire, motors, string, glue, metal stand

    Panamarenko explores different possibilities to make use of magnetic fields between planets for space travels, calling the former 'cosmic highways'. Flying Cigar Called Flying Tiger is a rather technical, abstract-looking rig that consists of three cylinders. A central, two-pole part that, by means of its gigantic magnetic field must get 'lift' vis-à-vis the Earth's magnetic field. And on both sides of that, a two-pole 'arm' to keep the balance. 

    This whole UFO legend is full of plates and flying cigars. The plates are the flying saucers belonging to the mother ship, and the mother ship is the cigar. The latter is actually a very big hollow tube. And those cylinders must by that big in order to be able to catch enough magnetic power. It's a spaceship that's eight hundred meters long and it can hold four thousand men.

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