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
    Kus, 1966
    Paul De Vree
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    The use of a typewriter and the graphic-geometric structure that defines some concrete poems are two elements that link concrete poetry to the constructivist and kinetic art that was extremely popular at the beginning of the Sixties. In the poems Mij Ook! En ik? (1966), Kus (1966), and Brigitte Floorflex (1966) for example, De Vree plays on this connection. By repeating words, which also usually form the poem’s title, without any spaces, De Vree fills a rectangular or square area. Because the letters in the different lines are the same but are not positioned directly underneath each other, the contrasting black and white creates a (light) fluctuation in these poems that is reminiscent of kinetic art.

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