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Martin van Zomeren

Address: Hazenstraat 20, 1016, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Phone: +31 20 420 8129
Website: www.gmvz.com

Martin van Zomeren is a contemporary art gallery based in the heart of Amsterdam’s gallery district. Through consistently showing its artists in group and solo presentations, at the gallery and at international art fairs, Martin van Zomeren plays a central role in the growth of its artists in both the Dutch and international art world. Gallery artists have been included in many international exhibitions on various institutions such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; 54rd and 52nd Venice Biennale; Tate Modern, London; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Manifesta Biennial; Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven; De Appel, Amsterdam; Kunst Museum Bonn; Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen; WIELS, Brussels; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, among others. Gallery artists’ works are part of numerous public collections such as Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Art moderne de la ville de Paris and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, S.M.A.K. Ghent, among others. In addition to the exhibitions, the gallery produces books and publications on a regular basis.

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Artist: Janis Rafa
Títol: Three Farewells
Any: 2013
Format & Tècnica: Father Gravedigger: 20min
Our Dead Dogs: 17min
The Last Burial: 25 min
Three-channel video, color, 4K, 2.40:1, stereo  sound
Edition of 5 + 2 AP

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Three Farewells is a trilogy of burials. Each part interprets the ambiguous concept of death and the fear of losing, outside the conventions of an anthropocentric understanding. The films consist of intricately woven visual narratives derived from personal histories.

Rafa forms a visual vocabulary and a filmic world that balances between video art, film narration and video installation. In-situ research, scripting, cinematography, post-production are inherent steps. The practice is concerned with the heterogeneous multiplicity of the living, a multiplicity of organisms of relations between living and dead, human and non-human. Each project attempts to deal with notions of mortality, mourning and the melancholy of nature and of animality that is born out of muteness.

Three Farewells is a trilogy of burials. Each part interprets the ambiguous concept of death and loss, outside the conventions of an anthropocentric understanding. Moving image is used in order to depict a certain realism that has very little to do with its usual representation. The practice is filtered by abstractions, visual metaphors and mise-en-scènes, in order to create an autonomous genuine world, hovering somewhere between actuality and a personal perception of reality. Rafa’s videos are returns to personal histories that reveal something of the subsequent carving of a place’s fiction and not necessarily of the place itself.

Cinematography Thodoros Mihopoulos GSC
Sound and sound design Aris Athanasopoulos
Supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
Alexander S. Onassis Foundation
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten

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