David Muth
2021Footnote #02: Hietamäki,
David Muth
The video piece “Footnote #02: Hietämäki” seeks to reflect on the object “car”: a golden car is parked somewhere in the dark, the wind is shaking the surrounding bushes. Besides that, not much is happening. The viewers are left entirely to their own projections into the scenery, accompanied by a minimal soundtrack by Carsten Nicolai and Mika Vainio.
Footnote #02: Hietamäki,
Christmas Piece
David Muth
The video “Christmas Piece” shows a tree being rotated rapidly by the force of a combustion engine. The machinery is being operated by Pentti Aaltonen and Markku Österman, the two mechanics responsible for engineering it. The concept of the piece has been developed in early 2010 during a residency at Galleria Titanik, Turku.
Christmas Piece
On C. D. Friedrich #01
David Muth
In a series of videos entitled “On C.D. Friedrich”, David Muth engages with the famous German painter and his particular approach to the depiction of landscape. In one video we are presented with a drummer sitting behind his kit who is working the drums, in another, a dancer performs moves, both of these scenes taking place in the Finnish woods. The framing of the shots has been chosen carefully according to the principles of pictorial compositions that were the landmark of German Romantic painting. Most importantly, the subjects are entirely subsumed by the landscape, as they are staged in the back of the open volume and therefore become compositional elements that are part of the wider ensemble generated by Muth’s visual selection
On C. D. Friedrich #01