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| MARKO MAETAMM | YUDI NOOR | OLIVER PIETSCH | KIM RUGG | ||
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SIMON DRONET
DEXTER
DYMOKE
MARKO MAETAMM
Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories
24 June - 7 August 2011
VIEW WORKS
Nouvelles
vagues & other hunting stories emphasizes
the idea of fictional realism which unites these artists in their playful
approach to presenting themsleves in a number of mise-en-scenes, initiating
a dialogue between the self and the exterior world. Flirting inexorably
with his own reality, Marko Mäetamm points to his status as an
artist by exposing the frustrations generated by his obligations to
his familial and professional commitments. Simon Dronet, on the other
hand, portrays and dissects our environment through the eye of a generation
who grew up in an age of media and cyber technologies and by parodying
cultural clichés. In a practice where the everyday is articulated
through impulsive interventions, Dexter Dymoke manipulates familiar
materials and objects to generate responsive micro-fictions and multi-layered
interpretations.
Tinted by a deep sense of humour and auto-derision, these “masters of the fictionalisation of the everyday” playfully expose, with a sharp and unashamed eye, the quirks, sheer madness and other weaknesses constituting the human condition and delve into a playful questioning of the notion of identity. These artists’ pluri-disciplinary and experimental practices evolve into a number of stories presenting a "zoomed- in" view of our contemporary life and personal angst.
Simon Dronet was born in 1984 in
Caen (France). He lives and works in Nantes, France.
Exhibitions include “Détournements“, R Galerie,
Nantes (2011); “F(r)ictions“, Arthoteque de Caen, France
(2010) ; “Oeuvres choisies“, Nantes (2010); Exposition
collective, l’Atelier, Nantes (2009).
He produces a weekly chronicle “La petite histoire de..” in
the Metropolis TV program on the Arte channel.
Dexter Dymoke lives
and works in London, UK. Graduated in 2011 from the Royal College
of Art, London.
Exhibitions include “Proteo”, NETTIE HORN, London; “Rapidform
Sculpture”, Sackler Centre, V&A museum, London (2010);
'Architect', installation for Festival of Architecture, Canary Wharf,
London (2010); 'Bench', Friends of Battersea Park Annual Sculpture
Award, Battersea Park, London (2010); RCA Group show, Weiβensee
Kunsthochschule, Berlin (2009); Creekside Open, (selected
by Jenni Lomax), APT Gallery, Deptford, London (2009).
Marko Mäetamm was born in 1965 in Viljandi
(Estonia). He lives and works in Tallinn (Estonia).
Recent solo shows include: “Love, Fear & Warning Signs”,
NETTIE HORN, London (2010) I have never told these stories to
my wife. I have never told them to anybody., Galerie Anton Weller,
Paris, France (2010); “Another Day with My Family”, Kunstraum
Goethestrasse XTD, Linz, Austria, (2009); “From There to
Here”, Nosbaum&Reding, Luxembourg (2007); “Loser’s
Paradise”, Estonian Pavilion at 52nd Venice Biennale,
Venice, Italy (2007).
Recent group shows include: “Confrontations & Provocations”,
Mare Articum Foundation, Szczecin, Poland (2011); “La Main
Numérique”, National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan (2010); “XXI
Brooklyn International Film Festival”, Brooklyn, NY (2009); “Hors
Piste”, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2009); Locws international
4: Art across the City, Swansea, UK, 2009 ; “Home Sweet Home”,
Dorsky Gallery, NY, 2009 ; Helsinki Biennale 2008, Finland; Baltic
States, part III, Contemporary Art From Estonia, Kalmar Konstmuseum,
Kalmar, Sweden (2007).
For inquiries regarding availability of works and prices, or additional information about the artist, please contact the gallery.
Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories ,
Installation View, NETTIE HORN
Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories ,
Installation View, NETTIE HORN
Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories ,
Installation View, NETTIE HORN
MARKO MAETAMM
Van Damme, 2010
Installation of a painting and text
Dimensions vary
VAN DAMME
I went to bed very early that night. I had been away from home for 3 weeks working on my projects in Germany and France and I was really looking forward to having sex with my wife after so many days sleeping alone.
I was laying in bed waiting for my wife, and I was very excited.
My wife went to take a bath. She always takes a bath before coming
to bed with me.
I kept waiting but eventually I nodded off to sleep and dozed for
a while...
When I woke up, my wife was still in the bathroom.
I dozed off again...
I woke up suddenly at 1 o’clock in the morning to the
sound of explosions and shooting coming from the next room. I got
out of bed and went to the other room. My wife was sitting on the
sofa watching some kind of Van Damme action film. I asked her
if she would like to come to bed but she didn`t pay any attention
to me and just kept watching the film. I asked again if she would
like to come to bed, and she just said „no” without even
turning her eyes away from the film.
I didn`t know what to make of it. I never knew she liked Van Damme
films, she had never watched them before.
„I’ll go back to bed then...,” I said. She didn`t answer.
It was as though she couldn`t even hear me.
I didn´t fall asleep for some time. I lay in bed thinking
of Van Damme. And then I was thinking of my wife. And I was listening
to all this screaming and shouting and explosions coming from the
other room. Then I was thinking of Van Damme again. Then I tried
to imagine myself being in that film doing all these things like
Van Damme, but although I kept trying I found I couldn`t really imagine
it very well at all.
Then, by and by, I fell asleep.
Installation View, MARKO MAETAMM, 30 Stories
DEXTER DYMOKE
Loveseat, 2007
Chairs, door, paint
153 x 102 x 81 cm
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DEXTER DYMOKE
Sleep, 2007
Wood, aluminium, wire, glass, breeze block, paint
139 x 65 x 32 cm
DEXTER DYMOKE
Witness, 2007
Wood, metal, cloth
244 x 102 x 26 cm
Marko Maetamm
30 Stories, 2010
Series of 30 drawings / Pen and watercolour on paper
21x29,7 cm
MARKO MAETAMM
Love, 2010
Video
5:32mn
SIMON DRONET
Nouvelle Vague, 2007
2:45min
SIMON DRONET
Le Lapin, 2005
11:53min
SIMON DRONET
1+1=3, 2007
3:24min
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