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Antidote II
Timo Bredenberg, Jonna Karanka, Eemil Karila, Teemu Mäki, Elina Talvensaari, Martta Tuomaala
Opening, October 2011
Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin
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The Galerie im Körnerpark shows finnish artists; the exhibition ANTIDOTE II presents a Video art programm in cooperation with the Aalto Fine Arts University of Helsinki.
ANTIDOTE is an exhibition series
directed by the artist and Fine Art Professor Teemu Mäki and coordinated by the Art manager Maud Piquion. Most of the
participants are students and Alumnis of the Aalto University.
The artworks gathered in this small show
have the notions of paper, drafts and writing in common, but without
necessarily using paper as a material. Activities of writing, drawing,
drafting, tracing lines, erasing and scratching paper are staged or
performed as a metaphor of creation.
Jérémie Bennequin has been erasing one page per day of Proust’s “La Recherche du temps perdu” for the last four years. In his last work he recorded the subtle sound of his rubbing out. Jenny Michel composes maps of imaginary regions and dreamed universe, reminiscent of the “Cartes du tendre” mapping love torments in the French Enlightenment. It is the torments of artistic creation that Sébastien Delvaux sketches in his video installation, depicting trials and redo with a sense of irony. Megumi Fukuda combines occidental books with the Japanese art of Origami. Michael Zheng’s installation Utopia stages a volume of Thomas Moore’s book “Utopia” sanded down on a table, poetically illustrating the diminution of utopia in current society.
Jérémie Bennequin has been erasing one page per day of Proust’s “La Recherche du temps perdu” for the last four years. In his last work he recorded the subtle sound of his rubbing out. Jenny Michel composes maps of imaginary regions and dreamed universe, reminiscent of the “Cartes du tendre” mapping love torments in the French Enlightenment. It is the torments of artistic creation that Sébastien Delvaux sketches in his video installation, depicting trials and redo with a sense of irony. Megumi Fukuda combines occidental books with the Japanese art of Origami. Michael Zheng’s installation Utopia stages a volume of Thomas Moore’s book “Utopia” sanded down on a table, poetically illustrating the diminution of utopia in current society.