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June 19, 2008- July 25, 2008
Reception: June 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
son:DA
bitforms
529 W 20th StRendering these scenes of the weird, but yet very familiar world, drawn with uneven computer mouse lines, son:DA makes the viewers experience the estrangement of their own everyday environment and of the society, driven by capital embedded in technology and progress. -Natasa Petresin, art´femme, 2005
bitforms gallery is pleased to announce the New York debut of Slovenian artist duo son:DA (Metka Golec, b. 1972 and Miha Horvat, b. 1976). For their first solo exhibition in the United States, son:DA is showing new configurations from their mouse.computer.drawing series.
Originally drafted by hand using a mouse that leaves a heavy contour line, imagery in the exhibit was manipulated site-specifically. Depicting figures and arrays of remote controls, cabling, computers, cameras and stereo equipment, the overwhelming collage of paper cut outs took two weeks to assemble. Printed and manipulated using everyday 8.5 x 11" pieces of paper and the regular desktop printer in the bitforms gallery office, the work is a Do It Yourself reflection on modern convenience and tools.
Even mechanical reproduction, at times, does give way to painterly imperfection. Sometimes the printer messed up, the paper jammed and ink ran out. These vulnerable and human spaces of connection fuel son:DA's otherwise flat utilitarian forms. Tiles of A4 paper in the gallery space activate a cartoony grid of electronic interface along the picture plane, and speak to the impact of pixels on contemporary visual culture.
"Over the years Metka Golec and Miha Horvat created their own artistic language centered around the signal-to-noise ratio and the illusion of connectivity through modern day technology," writes Peter Tomaz Dobrila of kibla.org. "Their installations, which they combine with graphical interventions, consist of broken wires, incompatible plugs and sockets, wrongly connected cables and stripped hardware. The line between parody and reality of today's networks has never been as thin."
Biography A collaborative duo based in Maribor, Slovenia, son:DA is a creative alliance of Metka Golec and Miha Horvat. son:DA uses modern technology both as a theme and a mode of creative production. Their anxious heavy contour lines and deliberately simple flat forms depict the symptoms of an absurdly overwhelmed society struggling with alienation. Recently exploring the fields of installation, computer drawing and audiovisual performance, son:DA's work is permeated by a sense of raw underground culture.
Staging several interdisciplinary events between 1999-2001, mostly in the Mediterranean areas of Europe, son:DA first emerged as part of the Klon.Art.Resistance collective. Since then they have organized exhibitions and dialogues in alternative venues including a former Yugoslavian military bakery, now known as the Garage for Art Photography (gUF) in Pekarna. Curatorial projects since 2004 have also included "DI_alog", UGM, Maribor for International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor; "ulica-2012", ToX-edition, Kibla; and "EX-garage", Gregorciceva 56, Maribor. In 2008 they created a foundation, also called son:DA, to support new structures of funding contemporary art practice and research in Eastern Europe.
Work by son:DA has been part of numerous exhibitions and festivals throughout Europe. Past solo exhibitions have included Galerija SKUC, Ljubljana; Mala-Galerija, MoMA, Ljubljana; C/O Careof, Milano; ARCO-06, Madrid; Turner Contemporary, Margate; KIBLA.Kibela, Maribor; Porschehof & Kunstverein, Salzburg; Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana; and Razstavni Salon Rotovz, UGM, Maribor. son:DA's work has also been part of group exhibitions at Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin; Kunstlerhaus, Vienna; 27th Biennale of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana; Kuntslerhaus, Graz; Sonambiente, Berlin; Institute for Contemporary Art, Sofia; 6th Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Szczecin; Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana; State Museum of Contemporary Art, Solun; Musikprotokoll am Steirische Herbst, Graz; MACRO al Mattatoio, Rome; Press to Exit, Skopje; and Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg.
Screenings of their film/video work has included New Video, New Europe shown at the Tate Modern, London; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; The Kitchen art gallery, New York. Also, the Festival of World Theatre, Zagreb; Human Rights Film Festival, Zagreb; Entermultimediale2, Prague; Pixxelpoint at Dom Kulture, Gorizia; 25th Festival Eksperimentalnog Filma i Videa, Zagreb; International Animation Festival in Zagreb, Hiroshima, and Utrecht; Zebra-Poetry Film Festival, Berlin; International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor; and Architecture in Video, Florence.
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