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REPRESENTED ARTISTS   BERTILLE BAK GWENAEL BELANGER DEXTER DYMOKE ANTTI LAITINEN
    MARKO MAETAMM YUDI NOOR OLIVER PIETSCH KIM RUGG
    BETTINA SAMSON SINTA WERNER    

SIMON DRONET
DEXTER DYMOKE
MARKO MAETAMM

Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories

24 June - 7 August 2011

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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).

 

 

 

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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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