Dénes Farkas. Evident in Advance
Location: 4th floor, Cabinet of Prints and Drawings
The exhibition by the post-conceptualist artist Dénes Farkas is like an imaginarium created using contemporary language. According to Daniele Monticelli, Evident in Advance is a reminder that places also exist outside of language where things can be experienced and shown, but not said or explained. The exhibition is comprised of repetitions of fragments of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s only architectural project, in photos, in books and as spatial objects. The words, sentences and passages in the exhibition are derived from the book The World As I Found It, a fictional biography of Wittgenstein, Bertrand Russell and G. E. Moore by Bruce Duffy. Where these massive and dissenting repetitions lead viewers depends on the viewers themselves. Sometimes everything is clear in advance.
The exhibition was created for the Estonian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale and is accompanied by a catalogue.
Curator: Adam Budak
Exhibition design: Studio Miessen
Catalogue design: Zak Group
Catalogue publisher: Sternberg Press
Collaboration Partner
Estonian Centre of Contemporary Arts
We thank:
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Attorneys at Law Borenius, Alissa Lillepea, Tatjana Kosmõnina, Gert Raudsep, Jevgeni Berezovski, Geno Lechner, Diana Didõk, Kulla Laas, Maarja Kangro and friends
Sponsors:
Attorneys at Law Borenius, DSV Global Transport & Logistics and Europrinting. The exhibition’s institutional partner is the Kumu Art Museum. And the following assisted in the preparation of the exhibition: ArtPrint, U.S. Embassy, Archiv Bernhard Leitner, British Council, Enterprise Estonia, Estonian Embassy in Rome, K.A. Paktett, K-Print, Debora Grupp AS, Laserstuudio, Liviko, Ludwig Wittgenstein Trust, Matogard OÜ, Nordic Hotel Forum, Olde Hansa and Emmanuel Wille, Papyrus, Printhouse, Pädaste Gourmet, Sadolin.
Estonia’s participation at the Venice Biennale is financed by the Estonian Ministry of Culture.
