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
    Sunset am meer, 1967-2002
    Paul De Vree
    Print , 98 x 80 cm
    ink, canvas

    In the audiovisual poem Sunset am Meer (1967) the text emphasises the visual in a more organic way. It is a handwritten piece of typography in which examples of onomatopoeia such as ‘klotst’, ‘patpatpatpat’ and ‘gállalop’ form a hand drawn circle and an elegant ‘S’ shape. The work appears so organic due to the spontaneous handwriting that is let loose across the text area. The combination of the handwriting and the curves simultaneously evokes a concrete and a mental image of a sunset at the coast.

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