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

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Paul De Vree

(c)Jozef Peeters

Untitled (after a schematic drawing from 1924), 1958

Jozef Peeters, Paul De Vree

Painting , 60 x 47 cm

Oil on canvas

In 1960 Jozef Peeters dies. In the early 1920s,

this Antwerp painter had been a pioneer of

abstract art. When the Antwerp neo-avant-garde

group G58 is founded, the young generation

recognise Peeters’ pioneering role by appointing

him honorary chairman.

With the death of Peeters, Jef Verheyen loses

both a friend and role model. ‘You were a sort of

Tijl Uilenspiegel. I needed you, so that I could

learn something from your wisdom and age, your

magazines, the exhibitions with Klee, Kandinsky

and Moholy-Nagy, whose work you knew so well.’