My paintings are based on film, theatre and photography aesthetics. The film scene itself played an important role: it enabled me to transform reality into an artificial space of the painting and therefore move freely on the borderline between abstraction and narrative content. Gradually a game started to emerge, a game where personal memories, collective mind and current reality started to encounter, just like on a theatre scene. What I try to do is to isolate the information or memories from its natural environment and analyze them, reconstruct them again through a painting on canvas. As a source I do not use just film, but also archive photography or Internet pictures. The topic of film and film scene has now opened for me in a much broader spectrum than I could expect. Private Ceremony Exhibition shows a human in relation to an object-scene or a space. Architecture serves here not as an isolated background of the figures, but on the contrary it merges and joins with them. Architecture gives barriers to the figures, or defines their position or possible motion beforehand. The scene is in fact a mental reflection of the individual figures. It shows their mental state and experience. This state in individual paintings is not at all ultimate, it is just a part of a process that stopped for a moment like a film frame. This processuality is implied in the painting itself. Every figure in my paintings is not just defined by the environment which it inhabits, but at the same time creates, destroys and builds it again. This constant mental process reminded me of our everyday personal “silent ritual”. Our “Private Ceremony”. Daniel PitínFebruary 2010
Daniel Pitín Born 10. 5. 1977 and lives in Prague, Czech Republic Study Daniel Pitín 1990—1994 Arts and crafts - Secondary school Prague, Decorative painting studio 1995—1999 AVU - Academy of Fine Arts Prague, professor Zdenek Beran, Classic painting studio 1999—2002 AVU - Academy of Fine Arts Prague, professor Miloš Šejn , Conceptual media studio Selected group exhibitions Daniel Pitín 2010 – 2006 paintings 2009 Der innere blick, Kunsthalle, Tübungen, DE 2009 Eccentric paths II, Latvian Museum of Art, Latvia 2007 Resetting, Prague City Gallery 2007 Eccentric paths, Berardo museum, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Prague Biennale 3, Expanded Painting 2, Prague 2006 One year after, Tresor Ba-CA Kunstforum, Vienna Solo exhibitions Daniel Pitín 2009 – 2003 paintings 2010 Private Ceremony, Gallery Geukens & de Vil, Antwerp 2009 Nicodim gallery, Los Angeles. USA 2009 Man in Garden, Hunt&Kastner artworks, Prague 2008 The lost architect, Charim Ungar Contemporary, CUC, Berlin 2008 Painter on the stage, Gallery Geukens & de Vil, Antwerp 2007 Adaptation II, Vienna - Charim gallery 2006 Adaptation, FUTURA gallery, Prague 2003 Motion Picture, FUTURA gallery, Prague Awards and residencies Daniel Pitín 2007 Mattoni Prize, Prague Biennale 3 2006 Paintings, Sovereign European Art Prize, 30 finalist of Europen competition, London 2005 Kulturkontakt Austria, Art Residency, Vienna 2004 Henkel prize, Vienna Catalogue and publications Daniel Pitín 2009 The lost architect, Charim Ungar Contemporary, Berlin 2008 Painter on the stage, Gallery Geukens & de Vil, Antwerp, Belgium 2007 Eccentric paths, Berardo museum, Lisbon, Portugal 2007 Henkel art.award, Retrospective 02-07, KulturKontakt Austria2007 Praguebiennale 3
Curator: Jan Van Woensel Assistant Curator: Vanessa Albury
The Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation, is pleased to present the group exhibition UN-SCR-1325, which brings together the works of eight Belgian artists with the works of eight American artists. Referencing the United Nations Social Security Resolution 1325, the exhibition focuses on the position of women in global and local sociopolitical contexts. The artworks in the show critically address topics such as religion, sex, identity, trauma and war.
UN-SCR-1325 is the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically addresses the impact of war on women and women's contributions to conflict resolution and sustainable peace. The exhibition acknowledges the great importance and value of this resolution. Instead of being illustrations of a political declaration, the artworks examine critical moments of social and psychological defect and disruption. Contrary to portraying women as victims, the artists of the exhibition present works that expose the counter effects of negligence, discrimination and intolerance towards women. Present and past occasions explored in this exhibition include the California Gold Rush, 9/11, the Iraq War, racial issues, domestic violence and sexism in the religious sector. As a running thread through the exhibition, the artists of UN-SCR-1325 prove how throughout history women, in fact, all people have stood up against their oppressors. UN-SCR-1325 is therefore also an exhibition about resistance and hope.
Many of the artworks presented in the exhibition, find their inspiration in concrete time and space. From the staged repetition of a random action in the work of Joëlle Tuerlinckx, the notions of space and isolation in the work of Sofie Muller to the relational complexity between "you" and "me" in Vanessa Albury's work and the handcrafted survival kit of collaborators Kathleen Hanna and Becca Albee; these works reveal how the artists reflect upon the here and now. The exhibition confronts the viewer with physicality, femininity, transgression and action. "If women suffer the impact of conflict disproportionately, they are also the key to the solution of conflict", said former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan in 2002. The exhibition UN-SCR-1325 demonstrates how change always finds its origin in a situation of conflict. Through this exhibition we are invited to consciously think about how change can be suggested, accepted and successfully integrated in our transient societies. [JVW]
The exhibition UN-SCR-1325 is funded by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium and appreciates the support of the Belgian Permanent Mission at the UN, the Consulate General of Belgium in New York, The Armory Show, Capitalatwork, Yasmine Geukens and Marie-Paule De Vil, and Office Jan Van Woensel.
Contemporary Art Gallery - Antwerp / Knokke-Zoute - Belgium - current exhibition:Ilse D'Hollander - GEUKENS & DE VIL - Contemporary Art Gallery - Antwerp/Knokke - Belgium - Pourbusstraat 19 - 2000 Antwerpen Belgium - artists of the gallery: Carl Andre - Ruben Bellinkx - Keith Brumberg - Stijn Cole - Denmark - Bert De Beul - Philippe De Gobert - Peter De Meyer - José Manuel Fors - Andrian Ghenie - Herbert Hanak - Renaat Ivens - Peter Lindbergh - Sofie Muller - Jaromír Novotný - Michaël De Kok - Daniel Pitin - Serban Savu - Toirac - Geukens DeVil Art Gallery - Carl Andre - Contemporary Art Gallery - current exhibition: Ilse D'Hollander - webdesign Seppe Slabbinck - last update APRIL 2010
UN-SCR-1325 We are proud to announce that the exhibition Un-SCR-1325 will be on show at the Chelsea Art Museum, 556W 22nd street, NY.Opening 5. March 2009. From 4 - 31 March 2009 the exhibition will be part of the official VIP-Prorgam of the Armory Show. 10 september - 10 october 2009 Meira & Toirac"Orbis. Homage to Walker Evans"2009
UN-SCR-1325We are proud to announce that the exhibition Un-SCR-1325 will be on show at the Chelsea Art Museum, 556W 22nd street, NY.Opening 5. March 2009. From 4 - 31 March 2009 the exhibition will be part of the official VIP-Prorgam of the Armory Show.
Contemporary Art Gallery - Antwerp / Knokke-Zoute - Belgium - current exhibition:Ilse D'Hollander - GEUKENS & DE VIL - Contemporary Art Gallery - Antwerp/Knokke - Belgium - Pourbusstraat 19 - 2000 Antwerpen Belgium - artists of the gallery: Carl Andre - Ruben Bellinkx - Keith Brumberg - Stijn Cole - Denmark - Bert De Beul - Philippe De Gobert - Peter De Meyer - José Manuel Fors - Andrian Ghenie - Herbert Hanak - Renaat Ivens - Peter Lindbergh - Sofie Muller - Jaromír Novotný - Michaël De Kok - Daniel Pitin - Serban Savu - Toirac - Geukens DeVil Art Gallery - Carl Andre - Contemporary Art Gallery - current exhibition: Ilse D'Hollander - webdesign Seppe Slabbinck
PETER LINDBERGH Stars & Models 27/03 - 02/05/2010 - DANIEL PITIN Private Ceremony 11/03 - 17/04/2010
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