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
    Kissinger, 1972-2002
    Paul De Vree
    Print , 97 x 97 cm
    ink, canvas

    In the poesia visiva, De Vree also continued to make use of various techniques like those employed in his concrete and visual poetry. Kissinger is a purely graphic work. The name of the American politician is split into ‘kiss’ and ‘singer’. The poem further consists of a drawn Singer sewing machine on top of which the word ‘kiss’ is written in large letters. With a nod to Paul Van Ostaijen’s famous poem Homage to Singer, De Vree here delivers a critique of the sharp and sometimes painful or bitter kiss with which US foreign policy enters into relationships with Europe and other countries.

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