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: Claudy Kremer, Courtesy The Deweer Collection - Otegem
    Helikopter, 1973-1986
    Panamarenko
    Object , 100 x 900 x 500 cm
    plastic, metal, wood, felt, paint; along with a display case with various objects

    'Cayley also made helicopter-like things, although they look more like toys.  For instance, feathers with their quills in a stopper.  When wound up under tension it would fly a good ways, and then when the feathers opened it would drift calmly to the ground.' - Panamarenko

    Panamarenko wrote an illustrated text in the early 1970s on the helicopter’s potential to conquer the air. He did not create this version, however, until 1986. He previously built a number of variations which – although they used lifting force and rotor blades (his Portable Air Transport, for instance, and the flying bicycle Das Flugzeug) – were not constructed according to the standard helicopter model with a cabin and tail rotor. He used a pedal-drive for the construction of this 1986 helicopter and unusually long blades to increase the carrying capacity.

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