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)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.’

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