Enfants Terribles (artist duo)

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Spider children in front of the Hamburger Kunsthalle
Aktion Sieben Matveys 2014. The admirer of one of the three nanaplastics on Leibnizufer in Hanover
Nana ET Matvey (in the background moving pictures - digital tapestries) Museet på Koldinghus, Kolding, Denmark (2014)

Enfants Terribles also Nana ET Matvey is an artist couple consisting of Nana Rosenørn Holland Bastrup (short: Nana Bastrup) (* 1987 in Copenhagen , Denmark) and Matvey Slavin (* 1987 in Leningrad , Soviet Union - today St. Petersburg , Russia). The duo was founded in Hamburg in 2012 and named after their action "Enfants Terribles" - a further thought-out homage to the spider sculpture Maman , which was placed in May 2012 on the outer plateau of the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg . Nana Bastrup and Matvey Slavin added 16 spider children to the famous sculpture by Louise Bourgeois .

biography

Nana Bastrup and Matvey Slavin got to know each other during their studies at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and then realized a number of joint exhibitions and public campaigns in Germany, Denmark and Austria as Enfants Terribles. In 2014–2015 they moved into the Künstlerhaus in Meinersen and in 2016 the Künstlerhaus in the Schlossgarten in Cuxhaven as scholarship holders. Since 2015 they have been working under the name Nana ET Matvey in Berlin and Copenhagen.

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Bastrup and Slavin use different techniques and media - drawing, painting, collage, photo printing, sculpture and video. They address taboos and tie in with the work of the Dadaists . Nana Bastrup's collages and short videos are about consumerism in today's society. Matvey Slavin, the expressive-realistic painter, creates a bizarre, satirical world of figures as a draftsman comparable to Jacques Callot . Slavin's socially critical works show the idiocy of a society in nightmarish visions. The references to George Grosz and Otto Dix can be seen in his drawings. The exaggeration of the gestures and the grotesque exaggeration of the people portrayed are characteristics of his works. Together they invented a form of expression that they call moving images . The moving pictures show exhibition situations that they have created and exhibition stations that they have passed through. Bastrup and Slavin combine their artistic careers, symbolic connections of the elements and grotesque situations. The connection between documentation and artwork relates to one's own career and is continuously produced and reworked: recordings of previous actions are changed through collage interventions by Nana Bastrup and combined with the pencil overdrawings by Matvey Slavin in the print on PVC tarpaulin. The works of Nana Bastrup and Matvey Slavin are autobiographical and shaped by the examination of the artistic vocation and the common concerns of the art world. In terms of their composition and their composition, they are simultaneously inspired by art history and the contemporary digital media world. Bastrup and Slavin work with photo documentation of their actions, everyday life and exhibitions and incorporate them into multimedia collages. In 2014, the action artists in Hanover added seven small artificial figures Matvey with colorful hats to the three Nana sculptures by Niki de Saint Phalle : The Admirer , The Critic , The Know-It-All , The Admirer , The Skeptic , The Tourist and The Destroyer . The action was realized not only because of Nana Bastrup's first name, but also because of the disputes that took place over the art form in Hanover in the 1970s. In 2016 they showed a selection of Popdadaist works in the Berlin exhibition Popdada 2016: moving pictures, masonry and the video sculpture Dadakind, Little Brother 2014–2016 - the child figure, covered with black lacquer on a base, holds a screen with video Popdada 2010–2016 in one hand Face. In the other outstretched hand is a toy gun with which the child aims in front of him. With the exhibition Popdada , the artist duo points to the centenary of the art form Dada . The intention of the popdadaist concept is no longer to question and parody the world because of its conventionality, but because of its banality and manipulativity.

Duo exhibitions and actions (selection)

  • 2012:
  • 2013:
    • Berlin : Staged Dreams I / II , Galerie Kurt im Hirsch
    • Berlin: Staged Dreams II / II , Kurt im Hirsch Gallery
    • Roskilde : Viking Revival , Galleri LABR
  • 2014:
    • Barsinghausen : Enfants Terribles - children of Louise B. , Art Association Barsinghausen eV
    • Hanover : Seven Matveys , action at Nanas on Leibnizufer
    • Hamburg : Enfants Terribles - moving images & video sculptures , Hengevoss-Dürkop Gallery
  • 2015:
    • Meinersen : Kribbel-Krabbel , Künstlerhaus Meinersen
  • 2016:
    • Asnæs : Enfants Terribles , Huset I Asnæs
    • Cuxhaven : We are ready , artist house in the castle garden
    • Cuxhaven : Cuxhaven curiosities , artist house in the castle garden
    • Berlin : Popdada , gallery subjectobject

Group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013:
    • Berlin : KurtSalon with Jim Avignon , Kathrin Ganser, Sophie Schmidt, Sarah Strassmann u. a. Kurt im Hirsch Gallery
  • 2014:
    • Kolding : Room free Museet på Koldinghus

literature

  • Till Bräuning: Enfants Terribles. Bräuning Contemporary, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-00-039981-7 .
  • Friedrich Holtiegel, Joachim Voss: Enfants Terribles. Children of the Louise B. Kunstverein Barsinghausen eV, Barsinghausen 2014, ISBN 978-3-945527-00-9 .
  • Michael Stoeber : Enfants Terribles - About the work of / On the Oeuvre of Enfants Terribles . Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-047552-8 .
  • Michael Stoeber , Merle Radtke, Hanna Richter-Kiewning, Friedrich Holtiegel, Kerstin Hengevoss-Dürkop, John Czapilcka: 3 years Enfants Terribles . Künstlerhaus Meinersen, Meinersen 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049034-7 .
  • Kerstin Hengevoss-Dürkop, John Czapicka, Matthias Schatz: Enfants Terribles - Footwork . Hengevoss-Dürkop Gallery, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049805-3 .

Web links

Commons : Enfants Terribles (artists)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Nana ET Matvey" ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the artist duo, accessed on August 21, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nanaetmatvey.com
  2. ↑ Maman had unexpected offspring. Hamburger Abendblatt, May 11, 2012, p. 17
  3. ↑ a b Spider Brood: Enfants Terribles. DIE WELT, May 11, 2012, p. 29, accessed June 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c d Enfants Terribles - Nana et Matvey at artfacts.net , international gallery guide for modern and contemporary art. Retrieved August 23, 2015.
  5. ↑ Scholarship holders of the Bösenberg Foundation , Künstlerhaus Meinersen, accessed on June 8, 2014.
  6. ^ Website of the Barsinghausen Art Association , accessed on June 8, 2014.
  7. ^ Archive of the Künstlerhaus im Schlossgarten in Cuxhaven , website of the Künstlerhaus im Schlossgarten in Cuxhaven, accessed on September 27, 2016.
  8. ↑ Nana et Matvey ( Memento of the original from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the artist duo, accessed on August 16, 2015.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nanaetmatvey.com
  9. ↑ a b Artfacts.net - Enfants Terribles , exhibition "Popdada". Retrieved September 25, 2016
  10. ↑ a b "Enfants terribles" surprise with interactive video installations , Calenberger Online News. Retrieved September 24, 2016
  11. ↑ a b Michael Stoeber , Merle Radtke, Hanna Richter-Kiewning, Friedrich Holtiegel, Kerstin Hengevoss-Dürkop, John Czapilcka: 3 years Enfants Terribles ... (see literature)
  12. ^ Enfants Terribles - Children of Louise B. , Art Association Barsinghausen. Retrieved November 26, 2015
  13. ↑ Gallery Ubik Space ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Retrieved June 9, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ubikspace.com
  14. ↑ Border Crossing , today's daily newspaper, October 18, 2014. Retrieved August 17, 2015.
  15. ^ A b Gallery Subject-Object , exhibition “Popdada”. Retrieved October 2, 2016
  16. ^ A b The Nanas have society , Hannoversche Allgemeine, August 2, 2014. Accessed on November 26, 2015.
  17. ↑ Altonale opener: Culture Night in the Altona Museum. Hamburger Abendblatt May 22, 2012, accessed June 7, 2014.
  18. ↑ a b c Friedrich Holtiegel, Joachim Voss: Enfants Terribles. Children ... (see literature)
  19. ↑ Gallery Hengevoss-Dürkop website of the gallery, Accessed on December 20, 2014.
  20. ↑ Kribbel-Krabbel exhibition views . Retrieved September 26, 2016.
  21. ↑ a b We are so far exhibition views. In: kis-cuxhaven.de , accessed on September 26, 2016.
  22. ↑ Museet på Koldinghus ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Museum archive website, accessed September 25, 2016.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.koldinghus.dk