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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    (c)image: M HKA - Courtesy the artist & Tatjana Pieters, Gent
    1.5.10, 1979
    Philippe Van Snick
    Painting , 50 x (42 x 29.7 cm)
    gouache on paper

    'In this series Philippe Van Snick departs from two intersecting curved lines. The space between the half arcs he fills with (0-9) color. Next, he extrapolates the form to a random decagon, which he dyes in the same colors. There are 5 gouaches for every colors, each one depicting different arcs and decagons.'

    (Source:Liesbeth Decan & Hilde Van Gelder, Philippe Van Snick - Dynamic Project, ASA Publishers, 2010)

    Why decagon?

    a decagon is ten points connected

    numbered (0>9) aritmetically I have the possibility of 

    working into infinity

    the point generates waves

    ex. falling stone in water

    colors are diff. wavelengths

    In the third dimension (object)

    in orbit, the object (0-9) takes on different forms even the

    most unexpected

    (sic)

    Philippe Van Snick, 1979

     

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