Kutlug Ataman Opening Reception Thursday, 12 March, 6-8pm Exhibition Dates 13 March – 18 April, 2009 Thomas Dane Gallery is delighted to present fff a new ten-screen video installation by Kutlug Ataman with original music by British composer Michael Nyman. fff will be Ataman’s first major exhibition in London since Kuba (2005), his acclaimed Artangel project and his first commercial exhibition in a London gallery. fff, an abbreviation of ‘found family footage’, consists of images drawn from home movies of the 1950s and 60s . This footage was borrowed by Ataman from the archives of two British families, the Fryers and the Howards, whose fathers were pioneering researchers into the effects of flight and g-force on pilots. Ataman has appropriated this material and overlaid it with original music composed by Michael Nyman, to create 10 short films, each with its own individual score.
This space is for the collation of contextual research and material from a variety of media. Exhibitions that i have visited are labled on red ink, and other references can be seen throughout.
Notes/annotations can be seen in red throughout. ..........
EDUCATION
2007 - Present: BA Fine Art - Wimbledon College Of Art, University of the Arts London
2006-7 Foundation Studies Art & Design Warwichshire School of Art
2004 - 6 AVCE Art & Design Warwickshire School of Art