Deimantas Narkevičius
Monumental video installations
about individual and collective memory
5 March – 30 May 2010
Brandts Torv 1
DK-5000 Odense C
Denmark
Are there particular symbols, colours or images that we all relate to a particular period – and do our memories have certain features in common?
Kunsthallen Brandts opens the exhibition The Unanimous Life by the Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevičius (born 1963). The artist works in the medium of video installation presenting eight of his monumental works at Kunsthallen Brandts.
Themes of Immediate Importance
Deimantas Narkevičius works with historical material with which he has personal experience. He grew up under a communist regime and has experienced his native country’s need to redefine both culture and society in the post-Soviet period. Narkevičius’s works are of immediate importance in relation to the themes, and relevant to anyone interested in the significance of what the narratives of our historical and cultural background have to our lives.
Deimantas Narkevičius’s works deal with individual and collective memory. He reflects upon the way we deal with the past, the way history is written, and how myths and legends are created.
The video works are projected in large scale (4×4 meters) in specially designed rooms affording the viewer an overall experience of image, sound, and space.
Deimantas Narkevičius represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale in 2001, which gave him his international breakthrough. The exhibition at Kunsthallen Brandts is the first solo show ever on a large scale of his work in Scandinavia.
The following works are included in the exhibition:
The Head, 2007, Legend Coming True, 1999, Energy Lithuania, 2000′, Europa 54° 54′-25° 19′, 1997, The Role of a Lifetime, 2003, Once in the XX Century, 2004, Revisiting Solaris, 2007, Disappearance of a Tribe, 2005.
Inauguration
The exhibition opens Thursday 4 March. The inauguration speech will be given by Chus Martinez, Chief Curator at The Museo d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
The exhibition is open to the public from 5 March – 30 May 2010.
Catalogue
An illustrated catalogue in relation to the exhibition has been published with texts by: Manuel J. Borja-Villel, Lars Grambye, Chus Martinez, Gerald Raunig, Christa Blümlinger, Dieter Roelstraete and Boris Buden.
The exhibition is organized by The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in collaboration with Kunsthallen Brandts.
Multiple-Visit Ticket
In order to give the public the possibility to immerse themselves in the eight works, we are offering a multi-visit ticket. During the exhibition period, it enables visitors to view the exhibition as often as they like using the same ticket.
Further Information
Contact curator Anna Krogh, Tel: 27537015, or press secretary Trine Søndergaard, on Tel: 65207092
Download press photography at www.brandts.dk/presse
The Exhibition is funded by
The Augustinus Foundation, The Danish Arts Council, the Cultural Attaché of Lithuania in Denmark, and the Ministry of Culture of Lithuania.
