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
Grote Quadru Flip-Flop [Big Quadru Flip-Flop], 1998
Panamarenko harks back in this work to his pedal-powered flying machines with insect wings from the early 1970s. The four-winged aircraft is powered by a pilot who tensions a spring by pedalling. When the spring causes the wings to flap
open, they continue to vibrate afterwards at high speed. Panamarenko drew his preliminary design for Big Quadru Flip-Flop in 1990, but it was not finally constructed until 1998.
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