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Alates kolmapäevast, 19.12.2007 saab Hobusepea galeriis vaadata JAAN TOOMIK´u (1961) isikunäitust Valmisolek.

Nagu paljudel varasematelgi näitustel, eksponeerib Jaan Toomik ka sel näitusel koos uusimat video- ja maaliloomingut. Viis, kuidas Toomiku maalid sünnivad, ei ole samuti oluliselt aastatega muutunud. Enesereflektiivsed ja hetkeimpulsside ning meeleolude ajel sündinud maalid on endiselt piisavalt narratiivsed, tekitamata vajadust neid sõnaohtralt verbaliseerida. Korduvad motiivid, sublimatsioon, mediteerimine iseenda ja oleva üle - on märksõnad, millest tavapäraselt Jaan Toomiku loomingu kirjeldamisel mööda ei pääseta. See kõik on kohal ka sel näitusel, kuid esmapilgul väikese erinevusega. On üks märksõna, mida võib lugeda juba ehk Toomiku pseudonüümikski - äng. Peab ilmselt paljude vaatajate kurbuseks või ehk ka kergenduseks tunnistama, äng on seekord maha ununud. Ei ole Toomiku maalides vaevlemist häda ja viletsuse käes ega soomeugrilikku liigtõsist nuttu ja hala. On hoopis erinevad valmisoleku viisid (kui lähtuda pealkirjast), pisut talvist fekaalivedu ja üks jalutuskäik öises kasvuhoones. Ei midagi ängistavat.

Videoloomingus on Toomik seekord nõuks võtnud kahestuda.

Kui videos "Nimeta" (2007) võib leida sarnasusi varasematest üliminimalistlikest teostest "Jaan" (2001) ja "Juga" (2005), siis videost "Isa ja poeg 2" (2007) vaataja suunas paiskuv power on ehk võrreldav varasemate videotega "Tantsides isaga" (2003) ja "Tantsides koju" (2005), kuigi teema kõigil erinev. Kirjeldada siinkohal videot ei tahaks, kes soovib, võib tõmmata paralleele äsja lõppenud Marko Mäetamme isikunäitusega, leida viiteid olukorrale liikluses või siis otsida videost ängistust mida seal ei ole.

Elin Kard

Näitus jääb avatuks kuni 14. jaanuarini 2008.

Näitust toetavad Allfilm, Eesti Kultuurkapital ja Hobusepea galerii.

JAAN TOOMIK

Born on October 2, 1961 in Tartu, Estonia; lives and works in Tallinn, Estonia.
Works at the Estonian Academy of Arts, professor.

1985-1991 studied at the Estonian Academy of Arts, faculty of painting.

Solo exhibitions:
2007 Hobusepea Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Kumu Art Museum, Estonia
2005 The Art Museum of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
2005 4+4 paintings Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Videoworks, Museum of Contemporary in Bucharest, Romania
2005 Recent works, Gallery of the Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
2005 Videos, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
2004 Videoworks ,Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Lithuania
2004 Artoteek in Hague, the Netherlands
2004 Art Gallery of Haapsalu, Estonia
2004 IBID Gallery, London, England
2003 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2003 Hippolyte Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2003 Artists' House, Tartu, Estonia
2001 Peeter Mudist, paintings. Jaan Toomik, videoinstallations. Cultural Centre Elzenveld, Antwerpen, Belgium
2001 Contemporary Film and Video Programme, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
1999 Vaal Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1998 I- 20 Gallery, New York, USA
1997 The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn
1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Selected group exhibitions, actions, performances:
2007 Shadow Filmfestival. Amsterdam, Holland
2007 Cool days. Bonniers Konsthall, Sweden
2007 body as city, city as body. Dublin, Ireland
2007 Backward Blues. CCA, Moscow, Russia
2007 October. Exit, Memory and Desire. Galleria ARTRA, Milan, Italy
2007 Baltic States, part III. Contemporary Art from Estonia. Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden
2007 (H)eros. Casino Luxembourg
2007 Locws 2. Engaing art, people and place, Wales, UK
2007 Asia-Europe mediations, Poznan, Poland
2007 Human Game, Saks 5th Ave, New York, USA
2007 Progressive Nostalgia, Prato, Italy
2007 Giorgio Persano Gallery, Torino, Italy
2007 Locws 3: engaging art, people and place, Wales, UK
2006 Art, Life & Confusion. Belgrade Cultural Centre, Serbia
2006 Licht.Kunst mit Licht und Lichtdesign. Lüdenscheid, Germany
2006 Human Game, Stazione Leopoldo of Florence Italy
2006 Videokunst aus dem baltikum, Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 Face the Unexpected, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2006 4.Berlin Biennial, Germany,
2005 Document 3 - International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Glasgow, UK
2005 Beijing International Art Biennale China
2005 58 Festival Internazionale del Film Locarno, In Progress section, The Cubes, Switzerland
2005 Video Art in Cork, Cork Film Centre, Ireland
2004 Instant Europe, Villa Manin, Italy
2004 Effort, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia-San Sebastain, Spain
2004 Shadow Film Festival, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2004 Viinistu 2004, international live-art and video event, Viinistu, Estonia
2004 Talking to Me, Rauma Biennale Balticum, Rauma, Finland
2004 Breakthrough, Grote Kerk den Hague, the Netherlands
2004 Dream Island, Riga, Latvia
2004 Movimento/Movimenti - Films and Videos of the 50. International Art Exhibition, International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, South of Italy
2004 Shortcut Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
2004 Bodyworks, The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, The Pierides Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus
2004 EastWest, Museumquartal; Austrian Film Museum, Vienna, Austria
2003 Now What,BAK, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2003 Extra Strong Super Light, Szczecin National Art Museum, Poland
2003 Veden Runoutta, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 Mohni 2003, international festival of contemporary art, Estonia
2003 Dreams and Conflicts: Dictatorship of the Viewer. Clandestine. Arsenale, 50th International Exhibition of Visual Arts of the Biennale di Venezia, Italy
2003 21 Minutes. Art Moscow, Russia
2003 The Paths of Europe, Contemporary Art Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece
2003 Paris - Berlin International Meetings, Paris, Berlin
2003 Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebandengo Torino, Italy
2002 Evidence, Esso Gallery, London, England
2002 Les Boréales, Caen, France
2002 Museum of Hafnarborg, Iceland
2002 Gooseflesh 3, international live-art and video art festival, Rakvere, Haapsalu; Estonia
2002 Roots, Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
2002 Breath, The Ludwig Museum Budapest, Hungary
2002 Video ROM, Milano, Bergamo, Rome; Italy
2002 Closing the Distance, ?a?nia Center for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland
2002 The Baltic Times, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2001 The Baltic Times, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia; Škuc Gallery, Slovenia
2001 International Film and Video Festival, Split, Croatia
2001 Gooseflesh 2, international video and performance festival, Rakvere, Estonia
2001 Valencia Biennale. Section Video ROM., Valencia, Spain
2001 On the Way to the Screen. "Art Moscow", 5th International Art Fair, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
2001 Nights In. Gasworks Gallery, London, UK
2001 Estonian Energies. WUK Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2000 - 2001 Grosse Kunstausstellung Düsseldorf, Messe Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 Inverse Perspectives, Edsvik, Sweden
2000, 2001 Bac-Présence Balte, The Human Project, Visby, Sweden; Athens, Greece; Barcelona, Spain
2000 OPEN2000. Venice, Italy
2000 I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Bleibe. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2000 L'autre moi tie de l'Europe. Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
2000 Videolisboa. International Video Festival of Lisbon, Portugal
1999, 2000 After the Wall. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin.
1999 Near and Elsewhere. The Photographers Gallery, London
1997 Interstanding 2. 5th Annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia
1997 Letter and Event, Apex Art C.P., New York, USA
1997 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1997 Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, USA
1996 Survival. Rauma Biennale Balticum 96, Rauman Taidemuseo, Finland
1996 Container '96 - Art Across Oceans, international exhibition of contemporary art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Manifesta 1, European biennial of modern art, Rotterdam Art Hall, The Netherlands
1996 Personal Time, Art of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 1945 - 1996, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1995 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, Paris, France
1995 ARS 95, international exhibition of contemporary art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1995 Avant-garde Walk a Venezia 1995, Venice, Italy
1994 22nd International Biennial of São Paulo, Brazi

Grants and awards:
2006 NIFCA Artist Residencies, Bergen Norway
2005 Konrad Magi art award, Estonia
2003 Baltic Assembly Annual Art Award
2000 NIFCA Artists' Residencies, Hafnarborg, Iceland
1999 State Prize of the Republic of Estonia
1999 Chicago Artist International Program, USA
1997 Prize from the 5th annual exhibition of the Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia
1997 Sinebrychoff Eesti Ltd.
1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
1995 UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts, special mention, Paris, France
1994 Kristjan Raud annual art award, Estonia

Selected bibliography:
Jaan Toomik, Catalogue. KUMU Art Museum of Estonia
Jaan Toomik. Videos. Catalogo. Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid 2005
Files. MUSAC. Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, 2004.
La Biennale di Venezia. 50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 2003.
Art Moscow. Programme. 5th International Art Fair, April 24 - 29, 2001. Central House of Artist, Moscow 2001.
Fresh Cream. Contemporary Art in Culture. 10 curators, 10 writers, 100 artists. Phaidon Press Limited, N.Y, USA, 2000.
L'autre moi tie de l'Europe. Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 2000.
New Media in Late 20th Century Art.(Video Installation Art). Thames and Hudson, London 1999.
After the Wall. Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 1999.
Jaan Toomik. Baltic. I-20 Gallery, New York, 1998.
Site Santa Fe. Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, The New York Times Company, 1997.
La Biennale di Venezia. XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, 1997.
Survival. Rauma Biennale Balticum 96, Rauman Taidemuseo, Finland, 1996,
ARS 95. Private / Public. Nykytaiteen Museo, Valtion Taidemuseo, Helsinki, 1995.
Manifesta 1. Catalogue of the first edition of a new European Biennial of contemporary art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 1996.
Container '96. Art Across Oceans. Europaesk Kulturby, Kobenhavn, 1996.
UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Arts 1995. The World of Art in 1995. UNESCO, Paris, 1996.
Avant-garde Walk a Venezia 1995 I, II. Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, 1995, 1996.
Lapin. Toomik. 22nd International Biennial of São Paulo, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Tallinn, 1994.

Selected magazines:
F.Derieux. Jaan Toomik in Bucharest National Museum. Flash Art No.245 November-December 2005
H.Soans. Minu munn on puhas. Metropolis m. Bimonthly magazine on contemporary art,
no 5/2004.
International Live Art and Video Event Jürgen Raap Kunstforum Sept Oct 2004
.Valdez. Jaan Toomik and Timur Novikov at I-20. Art in America, May 1999.
Keskküla, A. Jaan Toomik. Flash Art, May/June, 1999.
R.Roos. Tomorrow is a new day. Jaan Toomik escapes the stereotypes. Siksi, The Nordic Art Review, no 3, 1996.