Together with:\u00a0Ivars Gravlejs (LV), David Horvitz (US), Takahiro Iwasaki (JP), Kr\u00f5\u00f5t Juurak (NL\/EE), \u00a0San Keller (CH), Paul Kuimet (EE) & Mikko Rikala (FI), Camille Laurelli (FR), Ursula Nistrup (DK), Olof Olsson (DK), Pind (DK), Julien Pr\u00e9vieux (FR), Annika Str\u00f6m (SE \/ UK), The Collection of Marianne and Fritz Keller (CH), Triin Tamm (EE), Toomas Thetloff (EE)<\/p>\n
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Curated by\u00a0Margit S\u00e4de Lehni<\/p>\n
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Organized by\u00a0<\/strong>Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The starting point of the exhibition\u00a0AND SO ON AND SO FORTH<\/em>\u00a0is\u00a0Robert Filliou\u2019s\u00a0Principle of Equivalence\u00a0<\/em>(1968) \u2014 a pseudo-economic rule, which posited “well-done”, “badly done,” and “not done” artworks as fundamentally equal. It was an attempt to pull art out from under the weight of calculation and strategy, and to assert that an “error” can serve as something other than a sign of inadequacy. Filliou created several works following this protocol, in each of which he added a stamp with a tick indicating the state in which the artist chose to leave the work. By doing so the principle became a \u201cconceptual tool\u201d with infinite possibilities.<\/p>\n<\/span>Following Filliou’s trajectory,\u00a0AND SO ON AND SO FORTH<\/em>\u00a0is a continued exploration into the generative capacity of creative process \u2014 the original idea, its imperfections and the possibilities of, to borrow again from Filliou, the \u201cnot done\u201d. Emphasizing the ongoing nature of an art practice, many of the works on display are in progress and open-ended, more verbs than nouns, and multiply and change over time: for example, in the unreeling of\u00a0Triin Tamm\u2019s\u00a0Carousel Collection<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 the ever-growing and looping ensemble of slides \u2014 or\u00a0 in undeveloped film rolls by\u00a0Paul Kuimet & Mikko Rikala. David Horvitz\u00a0drives to remote Baltic beaches, goes for walks to follow the sun, and paints the skies on envelopes.Ursula Nistrup\u00a0is continuing to seek for a piece of music once heard on the radio.\u00a0Takahiro Iwasaki\u00a0is building curious micro-sculptures out of everyday objects and the ephemeral sculptures by\u00a0Toomas Thetloff\u00a0will come into being only after they have been stepped over, walked through or followed, leading the viewer to the yard of the exhibition space, where\u00a0Pind\u00a0is investigating our need for physical objects by excluding them.<\/p>\n<\/span>Annika Str\u00f6m\u00a0would like first to lie down, and then, to think. The potentiality of failure and refusal is also at stake in the work of\u00a0Julien Pr\u00e9vieux, who is tirelessly writing non-motivational letters to job offers found from newspapers.\u00a0Camille Laurelli\u00a0and\u00a0Ivars Gravlejs\u00a0are both looking into original ways of solving problems with things at hand. While Laurelli is re-editing all of MacGyver\u2019s improvised \u201crecipes\u201d as one endless episode, Gravlejs is introducing the eponymous stars of\u00a0Pat & Mat<\/em>\u00a0from a Czech stop motion animation TV series as contemporary artists. In spite of all the possible and impossible miscalculations, they eventually manage to find the most surprising solution to their self-generated problems.\u00a0San Keller’s gold tipped ebony action stick\u00a0Nothing is Perfect\u00a0<\/em>can be used for pointing out possible flaws and shortcomings of the other art works, including his own early works, all of which are owned by biggest fans and collectors, his parents \u2014\u00a0Marianne and Fritz Keller.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Combining the poetic, humorous and rational, the exhibition\u00a0AND SO ON AND SO FORTH<\/em>\u00a0is an opposition to the over-professionalization of the arts and a manifestation of the inventive and imaginative aspects of art making.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Together with:\u00a0Ivars Gravlejs (LV), David Horvitz (US), Takahiro Iwasaki (JP), Kr\u00f5\u00f5t Juurak (NL\/EE), \u00a0San Keller (CH), Paul Kuimet (EE) & Mikko Rikala (FI), Camille Laurelli (FR), Ursula Nistrup (DK), Olof Olsson (DK), Pind (DK), Julien Pr\u00e9vieux (FR), Annika Str\u00f6m (SE \/ UK), The Collection of Marianne and Fritz Keller (CH), Triin Tamm (EE), Toomas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,4,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29","category-kim-exhibitions","category-past-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n