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The catalogue of the exhibition “Aesthetics vs Information“.

Download the catalogue (PDF) from kulturpolis.lt

christmas card of the Estonian Ministry of Culture (with my work on it…).

Contributed a slide “Extraction (M. Heidegger’s things)” to Triin Tramm’s project The Carousel Collection.

The first public presentation, entitled “Simultaneous Slide Show”, will take place at Corner College Zürich between December 3 and 18, 2011.

Thanks to Aliina here is her original text of the article about our exhibition (Sirp, 18.11.2011) in english:

Denes Farkas and Taavi Talve: Footnotes 2

The concise press release to Denes Farkes and Taavi Talve’s recently de-installed exhibition at Draakoni Galerii, “Footnotes 2″, offered little more than a footnote. The annotation itself referred to nothing but its own definition: “A footnote is a piece of text which, for some reason, cannot be accommodated within the main body of the document and which is therefore placed elsewhere. The main rule in the use of footnotes: Do not use a footnote if you can possibly avoid it.” The statement expressed the essence of a footnote as a detached—ironically, both undesirable and yet vital—component of a document. Notably, its detachment operates a dependence of a specific duality: it is always referred to from a text (“the main body of the document”) and it invariably refers to another one (a different document or an external concept). In its twofold role as a signifier, the essence of footnotes folds in between the text that it represents and the text that represents it.

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Dénes Farkasi ja Taavi Talve hiljuti deinstalleeritud näituse „Footnotes 2” („Allmärkus 2”) lühike pressiteade kujutab endast allmärkust, mis viitab vaid mõiste määratlemisele: „Allmärkus on teksti osa, mis teatud põhjustel ei sobi põhiteksti ning on seetõttu paigutatud mujale. Allmärkuse kasutamise põhireegel: kui võimalik, ärge kasutage allmärkusi!”. Väide iseloomustab allmärkust kui põhitekstist eraldatud teksti osa (irooniliselt on see ühtaegu soovimatu kui ka oluline). Nimelt, selle eraldatuse sõltuvus toimib erilise duaalsusena: allmärkus osutab põhitekstile ning ka mujale (teistsugusele allikale või kontseptsioonile). Allmärkus on kahekordse rolliga tähistaja. Tema tähendus jääb kahe teksti vahele: üht kirjeldab ta ise, teine kirjeldab teda.

Loe lisa Sirbis…

“substructures” in KUMU art museum, Tallinn at the exhibition “Beyond” (curated by A. Budak) open until 8.1.2012

you can find more images of this work (and a pdf file) at denesfarkas.com

Installation of my books and an image designed and photographed by the curator of the exhibition “Aesthetics vs Information vol 2.” – Ignas Kazakevičius.

And some text about the exhibition in Russian here…

Dénes Farkas & Taavi Talve: Footnotes 2
Draakoni galerii
31.10-12.11.2011
avamine: 31.10.2011 kell 17.00

Look at my face: my name is Might Have Been; I am also called No More, Too Late, Farewell, thus Edgar Auber phrased his, according to Giorgio Agamben, pretentious dedication on the back of his photograph, given to Marcel Proust in 1893. Appropriated from Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet, „The House of Life“, this memorable dedication became the leitmotif of Proust’s life, a guideline that hunted the writer, a synonym of love, memory and remembrance, as well as an evidence of Proust’s authentic passion for photography. Following the promiscuous life of pictures, the exhibition BEYOND refers to Auber’s dedication and considers it as a unique definition of photography which contains reflection upon time and its fragmentation, performance and its exigency as well as a distance and its gesture of separation.

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