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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    Fuga in R, 1967-2002
    Paul De Vree
    Print , 98 x 98 cm
    ink, canvas

    visual poetry

    In his visual poetry, De Vree makes use of the possibilities of both typography and means that are not purely linguistic, as yet still limited to simple graphic elements like lines and blocks of colour. The most extreme ‘imaging’ of letters is found in *Fuga in r*, a poem in which De Vree fugally transforms a solid, block-like letter ‘r’ into a geometric pattern. In this respect, he called visual poetry an ‘art of the fugue’. A minimal shift in letters generates a visually repetitive structure, similar to permutations of musical themes in fugues.

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