22.04.2012 – 03.06.2012

EKSOOTIKA / THE EXOTIC

KURAATOR / CURATOR: KIRKE KANGRO

TONE KRISTIN BJORDAM, MARKO MÄETAMM, DÉNES FARKAS, TAAVI TALVE, JAN MANSKI, EGILL SÆBJÖRNSSON, KENNARDPHILLIPPS, ANSSI KASITONNI, KAI KALJO, SILJA SAAREPUU & VILLU PLINK, JAANUS SAMMA, MINNA HINT, TOOMAS THETLOFF, RAUL KELLER, KIWA, SEPPO RENVALL, YANG LI, JAAN TOOMIK, CORY ARCANGEL

Subeksootika: Tõnu Kõrvits, Kaido Mikk, Kirke Kangro

Näitust toetavad / Supporters:
Eesti Kultuurkapital, Islandi Suursaatkond, Embassy of Iceland, Armin Kõomägi, Karto OÜ, Temnikova & Kasela Gallery, Lisson Gallery

Loe lisa…

This weekend «The Carousel Collection» is in Helsinki, Kallio
Kunsthalle (Toinen Linja 31).
If you are around please pass by or let your friends in Helsinki know!
The loop is on today and tomorrow (14-15 April) from 9:00-15:00

Established on 11.11.2011 in New York by the artist Triin Tamm, this
nomadic collection is assembling, archiving and exhibiting art in the
form of 35 mm slides in a looping carousel. The ever-growing project
will be accessible to the public through various «Slide Shows»
organized by guest curators and Triin Tamm herself. The collection has
been previously presented in Corner College, Zurich (2011), San
Serriffe, Amsterdam (2012) and confirmed shows for 2012 include
Objectif Exhibitions (Antwerp) and KIM? Contemporart Art Centre
(Riga).

Contributions so far by:
Katja Aglert, Benjamin Artola, Nicole Bachmann, Linus Bill, Johanne
Birkeland, Serge Comte, Jeremie Cortial, Audrey Cottin & Kelly
Schacht, Clôde Coulpier, Stéphane Déplan, Martine Derks, Maarten Dings
& Egon Van Herreweghe & Joachim Naudts, Daniel Eatock, Adam Etmanski,
Dénes Kalev Farkas, Andris Feldmanis, Kasia Fudakowski, Séverine
Gorlier, Hanne Granberg, Sam de Groot, Maria Guggenbichler, Stéphanie
Gygax, David Horvitz, Sasha Huber, Unndór Egill Jónsson, Krõõt Juurak,
Tuukka Kaila, Kiwa, Lucie Kolb, Jirí Kovanda, Alexander Krone, Paul
Kuimet, Mikko Kuorinki, Laura Kuusk, Camille Laurelli, Jürg Lehni, Urs
Lehni Säde, Anna Lindal, Nicolas Matranga & Žiga Testen, Other Means,
Fanette Muxart, Rick Myers, Aapo Nikkanen, Morten Norbye Halvorsen,
Serge Onnen, Eléonore Pano-Zavaroni, Jurgis Paškevicius, Harsh Patel,
Elise Pautard, Ott Pilipenko, Tero Puha, Jani Purhonen, Ryan
Rivadeneyra, Jani Ruscica, Seppo Renvall, Tõnis Saadoja, Petri
Saarikko, Maija Saksman, Pia Sandström, San Serriffe, Ellen Henriette
Suhrke, Margit Säde Lehni, Triin Tamm, Zsolt Tibor, Liam Tickner,
Laura Toots, Lex Trüb, Stephanos Tsivopoulos, Timm Ulrichs, Anja
Ulset, Anu Vahtra, Ola Vasiljeva, Sigrid Viir, Walter Warton, Grant
Watkins, Erik van der Weijde, Kathrin Wolkowicz.

«It’s not called the Wheel. It’s called the Carousel.»
—Don Draper

Images from the show in Klaipeda (from Ignas)

Diana Drevinguga Klassikaraadios (Delta): http://klassikaraadio.err.ee/helid?main_id=1373653&lang=

DÉNES KALEV FARKAS (1974) will open his personal exhibition A Day That Does Not Exist in Hobusepea gallery at 5pm on February 29th, 2012.

According to the artist, current art project deals with the idea that there is no way out and actually people are unaware of the idea where the „way out“ should lead them in the first place. Present exhibition repeatedly serves one and the same obsession; the artwork can be seen on both floors of the gallery. It seems as if the concept of today would not exist in calendars, even if the clocks keep ticking and time keeps running. Everything seems to be based on either anticipation or procrastination. Similarly to the operating system of a personal computer producing an error message in case of an inefficient search, the general ability of articulation and abstraction of a human being inevitably gets stuck when his or her daily activity in a socium is fruitless on the whole. Error: No results found.

Dénes Farkas has emerged into the Estonian contemporary art scene during the second part of 2000s with his refined black-and-white world of paper maquettes offering the art audience various comments and questions in the field of politics and society. Despite of the fact that Farkas has been awarded with the annual art prize of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for his pervious personal exhibition held in Hobusepea gallery and his works belong to the collections of the Art Musem of Estonia as well as private collections, the artist belongs to the artists’s generation that uses art primarily as a critical tool in order to confront the Post-Soviet and neoliberal realities of Eastern Europe – the good old slogan „l’art pour l’art“ („art for art’s sake“) won’t apply to Farkas as well as to the artists of his age. Similarly to his former art projects, the current post-conceptual exposition is looking for its way out from the grey, boring environment symbolizing life with the help of paper maquettes, words and definitions torn out of encyclopedias. In principle, present exhibition has been built up as a single installation, spread out around the gallery space. Through the aesthetics of a „glitch“ (a minor technical malfunction), Farkas manipulates with only two repetitive elements: composition imitates a simple space where we apparently keep hitting a wall whereas around the corner there seems to be an opportunity for the way out – only that we won’t reach it. Error: No results found.

Press release by Andreas Trossek

Exhibition will be open until March 12th, 2012.

Supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia and ArtPrint.

Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture.

olete oodatud minu näituse “päev, mida ei ole olemas” avamisele
29.2.2012 kell 17.00
Hobusepea galeriis

welcome to the opening of my exhibition “a day that doesn’t exist”
29th February at 5 pm
in Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn

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.