"The Unanimous Life"
Source: www.kunsthalle-bern.ch Kunsthalle Bern
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2009-11-06 |
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DEIMANTAS NARKEVICIUS
"The Unanimous Life"
24.10. - 06.12.2009
Kunsthalle Bern presents the first institutional solo-exhibition of acclaimed Lithuanian film artist Deimantas Narkevicius. His films are musings in relation to specific facts and historical oddities, indirectly related to the communist experience in Lithuania and post-war Soviet Europe that don¡¯t shun a nostalgic ¡®atmosphere¡¯ and are motivated with subtexts that pose the ¡®what if¡¯ question in times that seem to be in need of cultural re-assurance. He traces lines of possible narratives underlying manifest fragments in our perception of history. Cherishing a kind of subjective fantasizing, re-inventing worlds, akin to creations of an inspired painter, Narkevicius at the same time pays tribute to his irresistible attraction towards former monuments, probably stemming from his training as a sculptor.
The Unanimous Life is a collaboration between the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid; Vanabbemuseum Eindhoven, Kunsthalle Bern, Hessel Art Museum; Bard College, New York; and the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius. The exhibition is curated by Chus Martinez and adapted for Bern by Philippe Pirotte.
A comprehensive book attemps to draw out some of the background of Deimantas Narkevicius¡¯s remarkable filmwork, and includes texts by Chus Martinez Christa Bl¨¹mlingern, Boris Buden, Gerald Raunig, and Dieter Roestraete. A new text by Philippe Pirotte will be available as an insert.
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