MARKO MÄETAMM (1965) will open his personal exhibition PAINTING AND WAITING in Hobusepea and Draakon galleries at 5pm on April 2nd, 2013. Artist talk will be held in both galleries at 5pm on April 11, 2013.
The following conversation about present exhibition was held by artist Marko Mäetamm (M) and gallerist Elin Kard (E) in Tammsaare Park on March 31st, 2013:
M: „I have a headache.“
E: „A headache? Again...?“
M: „What do you mean again?“
E: „You had it yesterday too!“
M: „I had what?“
E: „A headache! Yesterday! Don´t you remember?“
M: „Hmmm.... nooooo.....“
E: „Also two days ago...“
M: „....zzzz...zzzz....zzzz“
E: „What?“
M: „Shit...“
E: „Hey!“
M: „What?“
E: „We should talk about your paintings now ...“
M: „Yes..! No! Yes! No! ...Yes! No! Yes! No! Yes! No!! Yes!! No!!! ...Yes? Fuck! No!!
Do we stay in this press release late?“
E: „No, we are not.“
M: „Yes, we are!“
E: „No, we are not! Opening starts at five.“
M: „You said it was at six!“
E: „No I didn´t!!!“
M: „Yes you did!“
E: „No I didn´t!“
M: „Yes you did!“
E: „“No I didn´t!“
M: „Yes you did!“
E: “I said it was at five. But you probrably just didn´t listen...“
M: „Now we are actually here too early. Let´s have a coffee somewhere.“
E: „Mhmh...“
M: „What?“
E: „I said it started at 5pm. But you probrably just didn´t listen...“
M: „Now we are actually here too early. Let´s have a coffee somewhere.“
E: „Mhmh...“
M: „What?“
E: „Nothing. How often do you paint?“
M: „Eight days a week.“
E: „Have you ever done it before at all?“
M: „No...“
E: „Asshole! I knew it!“
M: „I think I have to go now...“
E: „Hey! Come back! Wait!!!“
M: „I want to break free... I want to breeaak free... I want to break free nan-nan-nann-
naa nan-nan-nan-nan-nann-naaa-hahahaaaa... I want to break free... God knoows...
God knows i want to breeeak free...“
E: „Hey! Can you slow down a bit??“
M: „What? Ha-ha-ha! Yes! Ha-ha-ha!“
E: „Of cource... Well, did you enjoy painting?“
M: „Not really. When I open the doo-ho-ho-hoor...Oh I want to break free-je-he-heah...
Oooh I want to breeaak free... Oooh I want to break freeee...“
E: „Why...?“
M: „There was too many colours and this guy was exactly like me.“
E: „Which guy?“
M: „This psycho.“
E: „A psycho? There was no any psycho!“
M: „There was. This stupid guy, exactly like me!“
E: „You mean this guy?? He was not like you at all!!!“
M: „Of cource he was! Ha-ha-ha.“
E: „I really liked those paintings very much. Honestly!“
M: „I thought you really didn´t like them ...“
E: „I did, I did! I did like absolutely everything!“
M: „But... what about this psycho?“
E: „Ah, forget it!“
M: „But nan-nan-nan-nan-naaaa.... When I open the doo-ho-ho-hoor... Oh I want to
break free-je-he-heah... Oooh I want to breeaak free... Oooh I want to break
freeee... Nan-nan-nan-nan-naaa... Nan-nan-nan-nann-naa-haaa... Nan-nan-nan-
nann-nann-nann-naa-hahahaaa...“
E: „Shut up...“
M: „God knows – I want to break free-he-he-he... But time still goes on...Nan-nan-nan-
nan-nan-nanana-naa-ha-nan-nan-nan-naa-ha-haaahaaa.“
E: „Do you really have to do it now?“
M: „What do you mean?“
E: „I mean do you have to shave your legs exactly now?“
M: „Sorry but I don´t have time to wait when you finish! I need to go to work!“
E: „Hey! What´s wrong with you?!“
M: „Nothing!!! What´s wrong with you??! It was you who said that I should shave my
legs more often!“
E: „Me?? I never said that!!!!!!“
M: „Come on! Stop it! Don´t start again!“
E: „What? It´s you who starts again, not me!“
M: „No, you start again and I´m exactly like this psycho! Ha-ha-ha!
Yes! Ha-ha-ha!“
E: „Mmmmmmmm...“
M: „Hey!“
E: „What?“
M: „Waaaaaaa...“
Exhibition will be open until April 13th, 2013.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and eDrinks.ee.
Special thanks to Reigo Kuivjõgi
Exhibitions in Hobusepea and Draakon galleries are supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture.
MARKO MÄETAMM
Born in Viljandi, Estonia
Lives and works mostly in Tallinn, Estonia
1995 - MA in Faculty of Fine Arts, Estonian Academy of Arts
1993 - BA in Printmaking Department, Estonian Academy of Arts
Upcoming projects:
2013 Witnessing The Wilderness, curated by Ian Brown, Wimbledon Space, University of The Arts, London, UK
Selected solo exhibitions:
2013 Painting and Waiting, Gallery Hobusepea and Gallery Draakon, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Our Daddy is A Hunter, NADA Art Fair, Miami, USA
-Once Upon A Time, Galerija Centar, Podgorica, Montenegro
-Walking in My Hunting Ground, Nettie Horn, London, UK
2011 -Nouvelles Vagues & Other Hunting Stories, Nettie Horn, London, UK
2010 -30 Stories and 4 Cockroaches, Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Van Damme, A Hair and Many Other Things, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-Love, Fear and Warning Signs, Nettie Horn, London, UK
2009 -Happily Ever After, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, USA
-Another Day With My Family, KunstRaum Goethestrasse, Linz, Austria
-Family, WAM Studio, Wäinö Aalto Museum, Turku, Finland
-All We Have is Love, State of Affairs, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia
-Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, USA
-Another Day With My Family, Gallery Go North, Beacon NY, USA
-Happy End (with Anne Bregeaut), Gallery Nettie Horn, London, UK
2007 -Distilled Love, Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
-From There to Here, Nosbaum&Reding – Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
-Loser`s Paradise, Estonian Pavilion at 52. International Art Exhibition, la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Selected group exhibitions and projects
2012 -Waterpieces#12, international contemporary and video art festival, NOASS, Riga, Latvia
-The Aspiration Factory, Gallery Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels
-Family Album, Städtische Galerie, Nordhorn, Germany
-Köler Prize 2012, Contemporary Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
-Eksootika/The Exotic, curated by Kirke Kangro, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-Festival Mundial de Cine Extremo “San Sebastian de Veracruz”, Mexico
-Therefore I Am, curated by Greg Slick, Garrison Art Center, NY, USA
2011 -Liberté/Vabadus 2011, curated by Kaia Kiik, Asniéres castle, Paris, France
-Memoirs from a Cold Utopia, Contemporary Easten European Artists` Reflections on Social
Transformation, curated by Eve Kask and Zhivka Haskiya, Londonprintstudio, London, UK
-TUMEDUS, TUME/DARKNESS, DARK, Contemporary Museum of Art, Tallinn, Estonia
-Sie irren sich!, curated by Jana Müller, mauren Gallery, Frankfurt/Main, Germany;
-A Rendevouz In Berlin, 91mQ art project space, Berlin, Germany
- Art of Estonia, Provocations and Confrontations, An Insight into Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by
Eha Komissarov, The National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
2010 -Kunst Macht Frei, Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by Reet Varblane, Gallery of the Museum of Pècs, Hungary
-Confrontations and Provocations, An Insight into Contemporary Estonian Art, curated by
Eha Komissarov, Museum of Contemporary art, Dept. of the National Museum in Szczecin, Poland
-Kättemaks/Revenge, curated by Kirke Kangro, Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia
-LA MAIN NUMÉRIQUE, curated by Dominique Païni, National Museum of Fine Arts Taiwan
-The Collective, Nettie Horn, London, UK
-XIII Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA
-Take Care – Politics of Emancipation, Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2009 -LA MAIN NUMÉRIQUE, curated by Dominique Païni, Maison d´art Bernard Anthonioz,
Norgent-sur-Marne, France
-That`s all folks! curated by Michel Dewilde and Jerome Jacobs, Stadshallen, Bruges, Belgium
-Home Sweet Home, Gallery Arts.I, Religare Arts Initiative, New Delhi, India
-Heroes of Our Time, ART FESTIVAL CESIS`09, Latvia
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany
-XII Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, USA
- locws international 4, Swansea, UK
-Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid/…, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
-Hors Pistes 2009, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
-Suburbian Beauty, curated by Neringa Cerniauskaite, Gallery Vartai, Vilnius, Lithuania
-Home Sweet Home, curated by Ombretta Argó Andruff, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, NYC, USA