Melvin Moti
Melvin Moti (* 1977 in Rotterdam , Netherlands ) is a Dutch photographer and video artist .
life and work
Moti's parents immigrated to the Netherlands from Suriname in 1975 . At the age of 17 he discovered his love for art and was accepted at the Academie Voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg in 1995 . He then worked from 1999 to 2001 at De Ateliers , an independent artists' institute in Amsterdam , where he came to video film through black and white photography .
The artist's cinematic work consists of video works in which he primarily deals with phenomena of the “invisible”. In the 24-minute film No Show (2004) he shows an empty, picture-less hall in the St. Petersburg Hermitage - evacuated during World War II , which only experiences movement through light and shadow plays and in which a museum employee (from the off ) of a group Soldiers describing the (absent) images in detail. In the 35 mm film The Prisoner's Chinema (2008) he shows phenomena that arise from the reduced stimulation of the real sense of perception ("head cinema"). Further works by the artist are: Stories from Surinam , 2002 (video film), Miamilism , 2008 (text work), Untitled , 2008 (object).
Moti also designs elaborately researched artist books , e.g. B. Eigenlicht (2012) on the expressiveness of self-luminous minerals .
Quotes
“I do a lot of research, so I only make about one film a year. I'm always hunting for unknown documents and obscure evidence of something. I also collect everything I find in books, articles, pictures, and letters. The work then arises from this information. "
“I let the sound and the image collide. You never see what you hear, sound and image are completely separate from each other. The sound tells a story and the picture a completely different one. Together they create a whole new one. And that's what interests me. "
Awards
- 2006 Charlotte Köhler Prijs des Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds for Fine Arts, Amsterdam
- 2007 JC van Lanschot Prijs for fine arts
- 2008 Karl Ströher Prize (2007), Frankfurt am Main
- 2012 ars viva prize 2012/13 of the culture group of the German economy in the BDI eV
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2008 5th Berlin Biennale 2008; Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Playback ; Museum of Modern Art , Frankfurt am Main, When No Means On
- 2007 Kölnischer Kunstverein , Pure Self Expression ; Künstlerhaus Bethanien , Berlin, The Magic Manual ; Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam
- 2006 KO Center for Contemporary Art, Linz; Mücsarnok - Budapest Art Gallery, e-fluxus Video Rental
- 2005 Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum , Rotterdam
- 2004 Witte de With , Rotterdam, Tracer
Web links
- Melvin Moti. When No Means On. ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt am Main.
- Film evening with works by Melvin Moti and John Smith. ( Memento from March 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Kunsthalle Basel.
- Melvin Moti on kunstaspekte.de.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kunsthalle zu Kiel (ed.): Systems: ars viva prize 2012/13 . S. 6 (exhibition brochure).
- ↑ On the pain of the ancestors: The video artist Melvin Moti. Deutschlandradio Kultur, April 7, 2008, accessed on February 22, 2013 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moti, Melvin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch video artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rotterdam , Netherlands |