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Galerija Gregor Podnar Berlin: Vadim Fi�kin : tour en l�air - 26 Sept 2009 to 14 Nov 2009 Current Exhibition |
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Vadim Fi�kin, tour en l�air (installation view),
helium, balloons, music, engine connected with transmitters - receivers, 2009 |
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Vadim Fi�kin tour en l�air 26 September � 14 November 2009 Galerija Gregor Podnar is pleased to announce Vadim Fi�kin�s first solo exhibition in Berlin and the artist's participation at abc �art berlin contemporary / def � �drafts establishing future� public art projects for urban space at Akademie der K�nste, Sept. 22 � 27. The work of Vadim Fi�kin communicates the relations between science, personal experience, desire and imagination, metaphysics and pragmatism, artificial and real. Fi�kin�s main area of investigation is science, its study methods and use of technological advances within a merely poetic approach. Many of his installations, sculptures, photographs, and drawings that are dealing for instance with geography, time, light, aeronautics, and meteorological phenomena, are informed by Fi�kin�s particular sense of humor. At the Galerija Gregor Podnar several new works of Vadim Fi�kin are shown for the first time. tour en l�air is a spacious installation with helium filled star-shaped balloons floating simultaneously in the air, driven by a waltz of P.I. Tchaikovsky. In front of Magic Button (table version) the visitor is invited to press a button. Soon after, a computer-generated image and voice appears and says: "There is no magic� just an electronic relay, projection, some light effects...and soap bubbles�" A special light switches on, and soap bubbles appear. A smaller-sized newly conceived works, entitled doppelganger (ball), is also on display, relating to the idea of teleportation. It in juxtaposition with the statical appearance of Fi�kin�s pictographic light sculptures such as White Planet and Red Star, Planet of Apes, Snowman and Red Star, Planet of Apes (all 2002/2009). At abc / def we will be showing Vadim Fi�kin�s Ping-Pong Electronic from 2007, a kinetic sculpture related to the process of repetition. A white ball is moving back and forward on a slant endlessly bounced by a hairdryer, which is triggered by an electronic time relay. Vadim Fi�kin (born 1965 in Penza, USSR) lived in Moscow until 1996; he currently lives and works in Ljubljana. His work has been presented in numerous group and solo exhibitions, including at three Venice Biennials (in 1995, 2003, and 2005); the 1st Valencia Biennial; the Manifesta 1, Rotterdam; the 3rd Istanbul Biennial; the 8th Baltic Triennial of International Art, Vilnius; eva+, Limerick; Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg; the Secession, Vienna; Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris; FRAC Lorraine, Metz; Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana; Galerija �kuc, Ljubljana; Contemporary Art Center, Moscow; XL Gallery, Moscow; Galerie f�r Zeitgen�ssische Kunst, Leipzig; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; K�nstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Palazzo dell Ragione, Milano; BAWAG Foundation, Vienna; ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe; MACRO Museum for Contemporary Art, Rome; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston; and the Drawing Center, New York. This exhibition has been made possible by support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. |
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