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Farkas - Evident In Advance

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Dénes Farkas
Evident in Advance

June 1–November 24, 2013
Palazzo Malipiero
San Samuele Square, S. Marco 3199

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia is proud to announce that artist Dénes Farkas will represent Estonia at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia with his project Evident in Advance, curated by Adam Budak.

Farkas’s post-conceptual photo-based practice engineers the substructures of society at the moment it renews and remakes its identity. Using minimal means, the artist constructs cinematic spaces of contemplation, where the plot awaits its author and the characters are absent. Silent déjâ vu interiors with no apparent spatial hierarchy become the potential crime scenes of a representation in yet another crisis and decline. Farkas’s social geometry is a cartography of failure and dysfunction. His visually reduced, rebellious spectacle of language announces a new melancholy in a world in doubt.
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01. February 2013 by admin
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Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia announces that artist Dénes Farkas will represent Estonia at the 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, with his project Evident in Advance, curated by Adam Budak.

Dénes Farkas lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia. As a post-conceptual photo artist, Farkas has primarily focused since the late 2000s on contemplating social structures and reflecting the result in a laconic visual language that unites photography and captions as a means of expression. Both private art collectors as well as the Art Museum of Estonia have acquired his work.
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20. September 2012 by admin
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