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Roman Ondák, Lucky Day, 2006, film still | | |
Roman Ondák: The Day After Yesterday
solo exhibition 10.03.2007 - 27.05.2007
opening 10.03.2007 at 20.00 hrs
From 11 March until 27 May 2007, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst presents The Day After Yesterday, a solo exhibition by Slovak-born artist Roman Ondák. The opening takes place on 10 March 2007 at 20:00 hrs.
In the exhibition The Day after Yesterday Roman Ondák shows three new works, which register performative moments he instigated in order to negotiate another kind of a future through "non-events"-subtle detours from the everyday. The Day After Yesterday, 2005, is a diptych that consists of newspaper cut-out and a photograph. The photograph shows a re-enactment of a "scene" coincidentally photographed for the newspaper, in which Ondák's family walks through a dilapidated neighborhood under rapid renovation. In order to seek ways in which "reality" could be perfected, Ondák invites his family to re-stage this situation, although this time they are walking in the opposite direction, toward the viewer. The video The Stray Man, 2006, documents a man walking past a building. The ordinariness of the situation notwithstanding, the man cannot resist the attraction of the building's street level windows. Despite his attempts to continue along the street, the potential promise of other possibilities prompt him to return daily to engage in this ritual of searching for the unknown time and time again. Lucky Day, 2006, is a 16 mm film installation in which Ondák explores the contemporary possibilities of "pilgrimage" in a secular context. The film follows a man who tosses a large amount of coins into a fountain, in a somewhat grandiose gesture of "applying" for luck. As such, the work puts individual agency to the test against institutionalized systems of belief. In all three works, the adventure of discovery, and of gaining knowledge into how things are, function as a starting point for engaging the viewer in a dialogue about what might happen if one takes another route, both literally and metaphorically. It is from here, Ondák suggests, that a new space of imagination can emerge.
BAK is proud to have had the opportunity to produce the film installation Lucky Day.
A new catalog on the work of Roman Ondák, including essays by Jessica Morgan, curator, Tate Modern, London, Jan Verwoert, curator and critic, Berlin, and Maria Hlavajova, artistic director, BAK, is published by BAK in collaboration with Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck in late spring of this year.
Roman Ondák (born 1966 in Žilina, lives and works in Bratislava) is one of the most sought after artists of his generation internationally. In summer 2006 he realized a large installation at Tate Modern in London, and the same year he participated in the Săo Paulo Biennale. This exhibition at BAK is his first solo exhibition in an art institution in the Netherlands.
Lecture: 19 April 2007 at 20.00 hrs
Jessica Morgan, curator of Tate Modern, London gives a lecture on the work of Roman Ondák.
Language: English. Reservations are recommended, t: +31 (0)30 2316125, e: info@bak-utrecht.nl.
entrance fee: € 2,50
reduction (students, scholars, 65+ and children <12) : € 1,75
BOOKS@BAK members: free
BAK is proud to have had the opportunity to produce the film installation Lucky Day.
A new catalog on the work of Roman Ondák, including essays by Jessica Morgan, curator, Tate Modern, London, Jan Verwoert, curator and critic, Berlin, and Maria Hlavajova, artistic director, BAK, is published by BAK in collaboration with Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck in late spring of this year.
Opening hours: Wednesday-Saturday 12.00-17.00 hrs and Sunday 13.00-17.00 hrs.
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