MARKO MAETAMM AT NETTIE HORN
NETTIE HORN is pleased to present the first UK solo exhibition by the Estonian artist Marko Mäetamm. Having represented Estonia at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, Mäetamm presents here a new body of work consisting of a series of sculptures, video animations, photographs and drawings. Being simultaneously autobiographical and fictional, Mäetamm’s works embody, with humour and auto-derision, authentic odes to life alongside acidic complaints on the complex familial and sentimental relationships between oneself and others. Flirting inexorably with his own reality, Mäetamm enjoys the act of confessing; his status as an artist being predominantly at the origin of a series of fictional “mises-en-scènes” during which conflicts and familial dramas escalate, sometimes towards irreversible acts. Throughout Maetamm’s world of disconcerting sincerity, the spectator becomes a privilegied viewer to the intimate worries and emotional tragedies experienced by the artist and at the same time identifies with the issues addressed within the works.
