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Marijke Van Warmerdam
dal 26/7/2006 al 16/9/2006
10am—7pm daily

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26/7/2006

Marijke Van Warmerdam

The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh

First drop, what is and what will be. A first UK solo exhibition for this Dutch artist who uses film, photography, sculpture and installation to explore her abiding interest in circular movement, in the uniting of beginning and end in a non-linear understanding of time involving both anticipation and suspense.


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Edinburgh Art Festival Exhibition

New and recent photographs, sculpture and film by Dutch artist Marijke van Warmerdam, internationally renowned for art which surprises the viewer with unexpected poetry. Often depicting strange and inexplicably wonderful moments - a pancake briefly masquerading as the moon, a puddle stirred into miraculous, shimmering life - it imposes itself on the mind and memory with a potent exuberance.

Van Warmerdam is best known for her mesmerising short films, which seem to suspend time, holding the viewer in a continuous present. For this, her first major solo exhibition in the UK, she has made two new films, and is exhibiting them together with a specially selected sequence of other work. Van Warmerdam is best known for her mesmerising short films which seem to suspend the flow of time holding the viewer in a continuous present. For this, her first solo exhibition in Scotland, van Warmerdam has made two new films. In Dream machine, a glass of water is diluted with milk, first drop by drop, the white milk exploding vividly into the clear water, then more quickly so that the water is clouded then overwhelmed by the milk. As the two liquids merge and dance together the camera zooms slowly inwards suggesting a moment of increasingly intense absorption.

Before we know it the glass has vanished and we are momentarily lost in the image, only for the camera to withdraw, revealing a world irrevocably changed by the experience. The second film, Wake up!, shows an Arcadian landscape, seemingly untouched by human intervention. The viewer is enticed, dreaming, into the perfection of the landscape only to be rudely disturbed from reverie by a huge splash of water which hits the landscape like a smack in the face.

These works are joined by a sequence of films, photographs and sculptures selected by the artist for The Fruitmarket Gallery and previously unseen in Scotland. With a typically light touch, the work combines a deceptively naive approach to the act of seeing with straightforward strategies such as dramatic shifts of scale, doubling, reflection, rhythmic repetition or surprising juxtapositions to urge us to look with our eyes wide open. Many of the salient themes of the exhibition are made explicit in the sculpture which lends it its title - a cotton wool cloud with a glass raindrop quivering within it, permanently suspended on the point of change. Van Warmerdam has used the work to describe the entire exhibition: ‘the start of what is and what will be; a sense of something about to happen, the raindrop that is just about to fall’.

Notes to editors:

1. Van Warmerdam was born in Nieuwer Amstel, the Netherlands, in 1959 and lives and works in Amsterdam. She is an artist of established international reputation, representing the Netherlands in the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995, and featuring in Documenta X (1997) and the 1998 Sydney Bienniale. Scottish audiences may have seen her work in the group exhibition Moment, at Dundee Contemporary Arts in 2000.

2. The exhibition will be accompanied by an 80pp full colour catalogue with an essay by critic Caoimhin Mac Giolla Leith

Marijke van Warmerdam’s exhibition will open to the public on Thursday 27th July at 10am.

The Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street - Edinburgh
Festival hours, 27 July—28 August 2006, 10am—7pm daily. Admission free.

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