ΚΡΙΣΙΜΟΙ ΔΙΑΛΟΓΟΙ: ΑΜΒΕΡΣΑ – ΑΘΗΝΑ

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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
    Toute prédication, 1966-2002
    Paul De Vree
    Print , 98 x 98 cm
    ink, canvas

    Visuele poëzie

    Toute prédication est un attantat à la liberté de l’homme. La poésie comme je la conçois, n’est plus la femme de chambre, des princes, prélats, politiciens, partis, ou encore du people. Elle est enfin elle même. (PDV, 1966)

    In his audiovisual poetry Paul De Vree had taken an important step towards a gradual integration into the evolution of the modern art of poetry. He found himself at a crossroads where one road led to the exploration of sounds and the other to the visual. The poem Toute prédication (1966) embodies the manifesto of De Vree’s audiovisual and concrete-visual poetry. It is not a concrete poem in the usual sense, but a statement about this poetry. The poem is set in a circle. De Vree is referring to the obvious way sound poetry was released on LP records. By producing the work on paper instead of on a record he is referring to the potential offered by the visual. In the text he dismisses ‘preaching’, any message communicated by poetry: ‘toute prédication est un attantat à la liberté de l’homme’, (all preaching is an attack on man’s freedom).

    Poetry can only refer to its own reality. ‘Ne se referant à rien d’autre qu’à la sensibilité d’être’, (not referring to anything other than the sensitivity of being).

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