„REVISITING SOLARIS“ IN DER GRUPPENAUSSTELLUNG „WELTRAUM. DIE KUNST UND EIN TRAUM“
Am 31. März 2011 um 19 Uhr wird die Gruppenausstellung „Weltraum. Die Kunst und ein Traum“ in der Kunsthalle Wien eröffnet. In der Ausstellung wird unter anderem auch die Videoarbeit des litauischen Künstlers Deimantas Narkevičius „Revisiting Solaris“ ausgestellt. Der Ausstellungsdauer: 01.04.2011-15.08.2011
Special guests: Walter Famler, Bewegung KOCMOC/Gruppe Gagarin und Alexander Wolkow, Russischer Kosmonaut
Anwesende KünstlerInnen: Eric Andersen, Artsat, Agnes Fuchs, Daniel & Geo Fuchs, Dona Jalufka, Markus Krottendorfer, Lena Lapschina, Jen Liu, Basim Magdy, Mahony, monochrom, Simon Patterson, Christian Pußwald, Hildegard Spielhofer, Eva Sussman & Rufus Corporation, Christian Waldvogel, Nives Widauer, Virginie Yassef
DEIMANTAS NARKEVIČIUS
Born in 1964 Utena, Lithuania. Lives and works in Vilnius. Narkevicius started using film during the early nineties. His films exercise the intricate practice of memory and portray a contemporary society confronted with the painful processes of history.
The camera offered him the possibility of exploring different narratives, allowing him to play with the course of time. In film he found a perfect medium for exploring both sound and visual language. The disjunctions between words and images in Narkevicius’s films make manifest the impossibility of an objective documentary. He eschews the close-ups that are a common feature of contemporary documentaries, used to demonstrate the veracity of an interviewee’s testimony. The central characters of Narkevicius’s narratives are often absent from the screen, replaced by objects, drawings and other surrogates.
