Image: Olafur Eliasson Your uncertain shadow (colour), 2010, Installation view: Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2010. Photo: Jens Ziehe / Courtesy of the artist
Continuum_ the perception zone
2011.VIII.26 – X.2
Opening: Thursday 25 August, 6 pm
Artists: Martin Creed (UK), Olafur Eliasson (IS/DE), Bernhard Leitner (AT), Spencer Finch (US), Ceal Floyer (UK), Kiwa (EST), Toomas Thetloff (EST), John Wood & Paul Harrison (UK), Daniel Kemeny (CH) & Marusoo (EST).
Curator: Maria Arusoo
We are happy to present unique set of well known international artists in Tallinn Art Hall.
The exhibition “Continuum_the perception zone” deals with the perception and development of spatiality, and how the visitor interacts with architectural surroundings.
The three-dimensionality of an exhibition hall is the parameter upon which the visitor relies without thinking but this exhibiton centralizes it and reconsiders preconceived notions.
It is the continuum where space is constituted differently – that is, the spatial perception which typically allows the viewer to experience his surroundings and, as a consequence, control them, is now shifted and the familiar frame of references becomes distorted.
“Continuum_the perception zone” focuses on the idea of the active production of space, and considers how this is created as well as how one can make use of it. The exhibition explores the possibilities of physicality in art and how art becomes the mediator. It aims to create an architectonic context which allows the viewer to be incorporated into a system comprised of spatial coordinates.
Through this set of experiences, curator Maria Arusoo aims to create a dynamic exhibition that is no longer understood in the binary terms of object-subject relations, but is disseminated in terms of environment. Space becomes not only visible and tactile, but also responsive to human action, It becomes contingent and inseparable from the material substance of the moving bodies that inhabit and generate it.
On 25th of August at Tallinn Art Hall there will be five hour sound session with special performances by: Franz Pomassl (AT), Kiwanoid (EST), Nathia Scalota (IT/DE) & Leila Fatma Hassan (EGP), Benjamin Altermatt (CL/DE), Raul Saaremets (EST) & Chris Long (UK)
More information: Maria Arusoo, arusoo.m@gmail.com, +372 56 229593
Many thanks to Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Estonian Ministry of Culture, British Council in Estonia, Tallinn2011, Department of Art Repubblica e Cantone Ticino, Temnikova & Kasela gallery, Smarten Logistics, Innopolis konsultatsioonid AS, Nordic Hotel Forum, Christopher Watson, Rain Lõhmus.