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

    Sarenco

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    (c)image: M HKA
    Kein Gott [No God], 1968
    Sarenco
    Drawing , 29.4 x 21 cm

    Sarenco donated a series of early sketches of visual poems to the M HKA that he executed on a large scale and on canvas in the 1970s. They are characteristic of Sarenco’s use of word and image to address the viewer through all manner of associations and to demystify the coding of the political and cultural arena. Something he does with Baroque aggression and frequently insulting commentaries.

    The sentence "Kein Gott" ("no god") is used by Sarenco in different artworks, like in the Poème gonfable ("inflatable poem") created by Sarenco in 1970.

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