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

    Philippe Van Snick

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    image: (c) M HKA, Courtesy Philippe Van Snick & Tatjana Pieters
    Lavabo, 1975
    Philippe Van Snick
    Photography , 18 x 24 cm (30 x 323 cm (framed))
    12 zwart-wit foto's op hoogglanzend barietpapier

    Philippe Van Snick is fascinated by numbers and binary logic. In several works he explores the changing relationships between dots. That way, he arrives at a geometric artistic language.

    For the work Lavabo (sink) Van Snick uses his ten-dot system. He drips ink drops into a water-filled sink.

    Here, Van Snick explores the scientific concept of entropy, i.e. a measure for the disorder or degeneration in a system. The ink droplets expand into the otherwise still water.

    Entropy is also linked to the passage of time and the experience thereof. Van Snick seeks to summarise this in his series. The viewer is thus invited to experience the event's process itself.

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