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Michel Rein: Mark Raidpere : International - 6 Sept 2008 to 27 Sept 2008 Current Exhibition |
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Mark Raidpere
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Mark Raidpere International September 6-27, 2008 opening reception: Saturday, September 6, 4-9 pm Pour sa deuxi�me exposition personnelle � la galerie Michel Rein, Mark Raidpere pr�sente quatre nouvelles oeuvres vid�ographiques. Si sa premi�re exposition � la galerie en 2006, intitul�e sobrement Videos , prenait comme point de d�part le cercle familial de l'artiste, ses nouvelles oeuvres s'ouvrent � des sujets plus larges. Pour Vekovka (2008), l'artiste filme de la fen�tre d'un train arr�t� en gare de Vekovka (Russie), un ballet de passants qui transportent divers objets m�nagers et d�coratifs, neufs, emball�s. La cam�ra mime le regard d'un des passagers et suit les allers et retours incessants des vendeurs � la sauvette. En voix-off, deux voyageurs, l'un estonien et l'autre russe, discutent. Venant s'ajouter au contenu de la conversation, �voquant les identit�s balte et russe, l'image ouvre notre regard sur la r�alit� sociale d'une petite ville du centre de la Russie. Dans Majestoso Mystico (2007), Raidpere juxtapose les images diffus�es par la t�l�vision lors des �meutes de 2007 � Tallinn et celles d'un musicien russe, ancien membre de l'orchestre de Tallinn, devenu artiste de rue � Stockholm. Cette installation est le r�sultat d'une co�ncidence. Le 26/04/2007, Mark Raidpere, en r�sidence � Stockholm, organise la prise de vue des musiciens Ivan Shumilov et Bj�rn Svensson, afin qu'ils jouent en plein Stockholm, le th�me du film Le Silence des Agneaux . Au m�me moment � Tallinn, ville natale de Mark Raidpere, des �meutes �clatent entre la minorit� russe de la ville et les forces de l'ordre, � la suite de la d�cision des autorit�s estoniennes de faire dispara�tre du centre-ville le monument en hommage aux soldats russes. Marqu� par cette bouff�e de violence, l'artiste d�cide d'utiliser les images en contre-point de la performance des deux artistes rencontr�s � Stockholm. Dedication (2008) prend la forme d'un portrait de famille. Renouant avec certaines de ses oeuvres pr�c�dentes: Shifting Focus, Father et Voiceover (2005), Mark Raidpere filme ses parents en plan fixe. Sur les portes laqu�es du meuble devant lequel ils sont install�s, on peut percevoir son reflet derri�re la camera. Raidpere demande le silence et la concentration, sa m�re laisse parfois �chapper un sourire � l'�coute de la musique de Erkki-Sven T��r. A l'issue de la prise de vue, l'artiste recueille les impressions de ses parents. � Raidpere (...) pr�sente son travail non comme expression lin�aire de ce qui pouvait �tre auparavant consid�r� comme relevant du priv�, une r�v�lation de ce qui �tait autrefois secret, mais plut�t comme un rejet de ce sc�nario binaire qui tente, que ce soit dans les arts ou en politique, de d�terminer qui doit r�v�ler ou montrer quoi, et quand. C'est ainsi le temps qui devient le dernier recours de l'artiste. � J�rg Heiser, "Mark Raidpere: Up Close and Personal", Frieze n�107, mai 2007. H�te du Pavillon Estonien � la Biennale de Venise en 2005, Mark Raidpere a depuis expos� dans de nombreuses institutions internationales, dont Platform Garanti, Istanbul et Tramway, Glasgow (expositions personnelles), CAC Ticino (Suisse), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, KUMU, Tallinn (Estonie), Centro Pecci, Prato (Italie), Prague Biennial (R�publique Tch�que), Witte de With, Rotterdam (Pays-Bas) et Ludwig Forum, Aix-la-Chapelle (Allemagne). Il a re�u le prix de Loop- Video art fair 2008 pour l'oeuvre Majestoso Mystico . Mark Raidpere participera au Shift Festival du Kunstmuseum de B�le en octobre 2008 (avec: Sean Snyder, Anri Sala, Akram Zaatari, Sadie Benning, Josef Dabernig, G�nter Zehetner, Lynda Benglis, Adrian Paci, Pawel Althamer, David Maljkovic). Il est invit� � L'Espace Crois� de Roubaix pour une exposition personnelle en 2009 (dans le cadre de Lille 3000). Ses oeuvres font partie de nombreuses collections publiques: Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain et St�dtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus, M�nich. Mark Raidpere International For his second solo show at galerie Michel Rein, Mark Raidpere is presenting four new video works. His first show at the gallery in 2006, soberly titled Videos , took as its point of departure the artist's family circle, but his new works encompass broader subjects. For Vekovka (2008), the artist films a ballet of passers-by, carrying various household and decorative objects, all new and wrapped, from the window of a train stopped at Vekovka station, in Russia. The camera mimics the eye of one of the passengers and follows the ceaseless toing and froing of the hawkers and vendors. As voice-overs, two passengers, one Estonian, the other Russian, are talking to each other. To the content of their conversation, about the Baltic and Russian identity, the image opens our eyes to a form of midland-Russian-smalltown everyday and its inhabitants. In Majestoso Mystico (2007), Raidpere juxtaposes images broadcast by TV during the 2007 riots in Tallinn, and those of a Russian musician, former member of the Tallinn orchestra, now a street artist in Stockholm. This installation is the outcome of a coincidence. On 26 April 2007, during a residency in Stockholm, Mark Raidpere organized a shoot involving the musicians Ivan Shumilov and Bj�rn Svensson, so that they could play the theme tune from the film Silence of the Lambs in downtown Stockholm. At the same moment in Tallinn, Mark Raidpere's native city, riots broke out between the city's Russian minority and the forces of law and order, after a decision taken by the Estonian authorities to remove from the city centre the monument in honour of Russian soldiers. Affected by this outburst of violence, the artist decided to use the images as a counterpoint to the performance of the two artists met in Stockholm. Dedication (2008) takes on the form of a family portrait. Linking up with some of his earlier works-- Shifting Focus, Father and Voiceover (2005)--Mark Raidpere film his parents in a static shot. On the painted doors of the piece furniture they are filmed in front of, we can detect his reflection behind the camera. Raidpere calls for silence and concentration; his mother sometimes smiles when she hears the music of Erkki-Sven T��r After the shot, the artist gets his parents' impressions. "Raidpere (...) presents his work as not simply a linear expression of what was previously considered private, a disclosing of what had been in the closet, but rather as a rejection of that either/or scenario which attempts -whether in arts or politics- to determine who may display or disclose what, and when. Time, then, becomes the last, receding resort." J�rg Heiser, "Mark Raidpere: Up Close and Personal", Frieze n�107, May 2007. After representing Estonian in the 2005 Venice Biennale, Mark Raidpere has since exhibited in many international institutions including Platform Garanti, Istanbul (solo show), CAC Ticino (Switzerland), Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, KUMU, Tallinn (Estonia), Centro Pecci, Prato (Italy), Prague Biennial (Czech Republic), Witte de With, Rotterdam (Netherlands), and Ludwig Forum, Aachen (Germany). He received the Loop Video Art Fair award 2008 for his work Majestoso Mystico. Mark Raidpere will be part of the Shift Festival at Kunstmuseum Basel in October 2008 (with: Sean Snyder, Anri Sala, Akram Zaatari, Sadie Benning, Josef Dabernig, G�nter Zehetner, Lynda Benglis, Adrian Paci, Pawel Althamer, David Maljkovic). He is invited to the Espace Crois� in Roubaix for a solo show in 2009 (as part of Lille 3000). His works feature in many public collections: Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain and St�dtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus, M�nich. Next exhibition : Maja Bajevic, Apr�s le film , Oct. 11-Nov. 15, 2008 |
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