Aernout mik biography definition
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Aernout Mik. Video installations
Aernout Mik:
The Contemporary Art Centre presents Aernout Mik, the leading figure of the video art scene. Born in Groningen, the Netherlands, in 1962, Aernout Mik lives and works in Amsterdam. Since 1987, he has been presented in solo exhibitions throughout Europe including Institute of Contemporary Arts, London and Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. Mik has even twice represented the Netherlands at the Venice Biennale, participated in the Biennales of Berlin, Yokohama and Sao Paulo.
Project in Vilnius:
The exhibition in Vilnius is one of the largest presentations of Mik’s work, both in scale and in the range of the artist’s videos shown. For this show, the Aernout Mik will create a video installation, constructing an impressive architectural environment for the 1000 square metres of the Main CAC Hall.
Aernout Mik’s presentation in Vilnius will consist of four video works, presented on seven different size back-screen projections. The huge architectural setting will take the form of an asymmetric room, shaped by the organically curved and bent walls, with the inside space being left for the spectator. Constantly changing light conditions will present Mik’s first effort to include light in his compositions.
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File Note 18: Aernout Mik
A mis-registering: There is a war… but now a green tractor crosses the town square from left to right.
There is a war… but it was a red tractor and it crosses the town square from right to left.
By around the age of seven, the distinctions between fiction and reality, lies and honesty, have been pretty comprehensively experienced and played with. We should therefore have grown out of thinking about Aernout Mik’s work within the dilemma of “is it real — like us — or is it not?” The works cause unease, but surely it is because of something else and we’re looking at it all from the wrong way round…?
However, I remember something like this: I’m sure he ended on the words “Completely vindicated!” Like a gleefully ecstatic six year old who has just won some playground contest, Andrew Marr, the BBC’s Chief Political Correspondent, is gesticulating delightedly towards the doors of No.10 behind him. It is 9th April 2003. The image that precedes this is of a man stripped to the waist, spinning his shirt above his head. The shirt twirler was a player in a fantasy which also starred the victorious Coalition forces and the jubilant, emancipated, Iraqi people knocking down Saddam’s statue. Ignoring 40,000 deaths and any strangely intuitive misgivings about t
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Aernout Mik, Communitas
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