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

    Paul De Vree

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    (c)image: M HKA
    Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf, 1973
    Paul De Vree
    Photography , 82 x 67 cm
    photo emulsion, canvas

    In his poesia visiva, De Vree also makes use of a collage technique in which drawing, photograph and typography collectively shape the poem. *Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf* shows a sketch of a dancing couple whose heads are photographs of Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev. The text printed on their clothes reads “Watergate” and “Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf”. The title is borrowed from the eponymous play by Edward Albee (the remarkable film adaptation of which starred Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor). De Vree is here alluding to the love/hate relationship between the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union.

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