Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp
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
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Sarenco
(c)image: M HKA
Il popolo è forte, armato vincerà [The people is strong, armed it will prevail], 1971
In this work Sarenco chooses a masterpiece – Seated Bather painted by Pierre Auguste Renoir in 1914 and now in the Art Institute Chicago's collection – and overwrites a communist and anarchical sentence (“Il popolo è forte, armato vincerà!”, “The people is strong, armed it will prevail!”) in a cartoon bubble. With this stratagem the artist obtains a dadaist effect: an icon of bourgeois painting – the classic theme of the bather and the female nude – becomes protagonist of a communist fight.
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