27 October 2013

Jaan Toomik: Solo

Jaan Toomik: Solo
Skur 6, Stavanger
Part of the project Estonian Dream - A festival of Estonian art in Rogaland
26.10.-1.12.13
Video

A retrospective and a present view on a legendary artist's work. The focus is on short videos with prominent sounds. The exhibition took use of a venue never used for art before, the Skur 6, at the back side of the Galleri Sult.

Jaan Toomik: Dancing Home
Jaan Toomik: Dancing Home

The  breakthrough video of the artist dancing restlessly on the ferry towards Estonia 1995.

Jaan Toomik: Untitled Action
Jaan Toomik: Untitled Action

A video produced for this exhibition, where the artists struggles with something unknown behind a concrete feature. And in the background a person seems to steal his way into a shed.

Jaan Toomik: Seagulls
Jaan Toomik: Seagulls

The artist rolling into a pool, then screaming poetry through a hose.

Jaan Toomik: Untitled (The Leap) + Run
Jaan Toomik: Untitled (The Leap) + Run

The artist falling and disappearing, and the artist running into a mystic tunnel.