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
    Love, 1973-1976
    Paul De Vree
    Photography , 50 x 70 cm
    photo paper

    On only one occasion did De Vree start drawing expressively with photographic material. For the poem Love (1973), limbs of dancers were cut from photographs and skilfully assembled to form the word ‘love’. The bodily postures, which were previously reproduced photographically, are isolated and appear against a white background, although the fragmented picture loses nothing of its readability and impact. The legs and arms also serve an erotic function, given the ‘free’ postures the figures have adopted. This poem was published in an edition of 200 copies by De Vereniging in Ghent in 1976.

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