Kutlug Ataman
dal 11/3/2009 al 17/4/2009
Segnalato da
11/3/2009
Kutlug Ataman
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
fff is a new ten-screen video installation with original music by British composer Michael Nyman. It consists of images drawn from home movies of the 1950s and 60s.Ataman's work primarily documents the lives of marginalised individuals, examining the way in which people create and rewrite their identities, blurring the line between fiction and reality.
For his first exhibition in a London gallery, Kutlug Ataman presents, fff, a new ten-screen video installation with original music by British composer Michael Nyman. Ataman's Thomas Dane exhibition follows the recent live world premiere of fff, held at the Whitechapel Gallery on 26 February. Ataman's last major project in London was the highly acclaimed Artangel commission entitled Kuba (2005).
Ataman's work primarily documents the lives of marginalised individuals, examining the way in which people create and rewrite their identities, blurring the line between fiction and reality.
fff, an abbreviation of found family footage, consists of images drawn from home movies of the 1950s and 60s. This footage comes from the archives of two British families, the Fryers and the Howards, whose fathers were pioneering researchers into the effects of flight and g-force on pilots from the RAF. Ataman has appropriated this material and overlaid it with original music composed by Michael Nyman, to create 10 short films, each with its own individual score. This large-scale, elegiac work is made up of quintessentially English vignettes from a seemingly lost age that first appear suffused with nostalgia. However, both Ataman’s point of view as an outsider looking in, and his particular conceptual approach reveal something altogether more complex.
fff is produced by the Institute for the Readjustment of Clocks, Istanbul. It was commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery, London, Arts Council of England and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Kutlug Ataman was born in 1961 in Istanbul and lives and works between London and Turkey. He studied film at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2004, the same year he won the Carnegie International Prize. He has just been awarded the first Abraaj Prize, which will be presented in Dubai in March 2009. Solo exhibitions during 2009 include a major exhibition of new work at the Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria, and a joint exhibition of Kuba/Paradise at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Michael Nyman is a British pianist and composer, best known for his film scores which include The Draughtsman's Contract, The Piano,The End of the Affair and Wonderland.
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Opening Reception Thursday, 12 March, 6-8pm
Thomas Dane
11 Duke Street St James's - London
Gallery open Tuesday to Friday 11 – 6, Saturday 11 – 4.
Free admission