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Profile Information
- Website
- http://la-platz.blogspot.com/
- Relationship status
- in a relationship
- College / University
- Estonian Academy of Arts
- Graduation
- 1 May 1999
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Film, Installation, Painting, Photography, Video
- I am...
- ContraArtist who lives with his family in Estonia (between Scandinavia and Russia) and participates independently in local artworld.
Biography:
Karl Nagel was born in Tallinn, 3 of may, 1977. He grew up in an artist family, his father and grandfather were both well-known Estonian painters. Karl studied in Tallinn Secondary Science School, after that he entered Estonian Academy of Art, as a painter. Academy years between 1995-1999 made a strong change to start his own art. The conditions to be an artist as a painter were complicated. The diploma was named "Lovers abort time" - two 3x7m paintings, showing woman and man, images that based to popular arthouse movies. Aside of painting he wrote a novel "Simple Time" (1997-2000) and was interested of making videoart (film "Epoch" with Tiiu Rebane, 1999). He was planning to go to the filmschool, but choosed to learn in homestudio (Last-Studio). Between 1998-2005 he made series of videos ("Lumpen intelligence", "Media enthropy", "Erudition of a misanthrope" etc), all together more than 100 works. He also started with sound projects ("Rule", "Tyrisalu", "Reri Brix") to make music for his movies.
In his first soloexhibition "Suffer Like Animals"(2000) he used painted texts in his works. Between 2000 and 2004 he made eight exhibitions, where he also presented variety of his videoseries. "The truth ” in Vienna (2001),"Neoconformism" (2001),"Comedy pathology" (2002), "Matter" (2002) and "Surrend" (2003, with Tiiu Rebane) were some of them. Paintings in this period were about practical connections between health and mind (using texts by the famous estonian writer and doctor Luule Viilma), and rebellious death (series about dead soldiers and chechen fighters). His abstract and agressive painting style turned more realistic and figurative. Year 2005 he exhibited new series of works about young russian political activists ("Homeland daughter calls"). After that he was interrogated by the Estonian Security Police. At that year he also presented his works ("State Terror") in open space close to II World War Monument of Liberators in Riga, Latvia. Year 2007 exhibition "Execution" was with Tiiu Rebane in Tallinns main gallery Vaal. Paintings were portraits of Luule Viilma, Buryat Buddhist lama Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov, russian oposition leader Eduard Limonov with his family and one more work about movies - japanese samuraiepic "Daibosatsu Pass" and its main character. Last two years he has continued with paintings about movies. "The Drummer Crab", "The Desert of Tartars" and "The Mother and the Whore" are the titles from the past that represent poetic approach to the local restrained culture. Also he has done several paintings about russian punk-rock musician Egor Letov (group "Grazhdanskaya Oborona" / "Civil Defence").
- About my artwork
- I've been working mostly with oil and canvas in expressionistic or realistic styles, but you can find more than you like - mixed media, materials and texts, even poetry on paintings. Pictures are about marginal themes - people, culture and ideas that deserve better acknowledgement.
- Artists I like
- I like people who value and support serious art (I mean timeless art, without any global criticism). artists: Bruce Nauman, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Ilya Kabakov, Alexander Brener, Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, David Lynch, Edward Munch, On Kawara, Tehching Hsieh, Tatsumi Orimoto, Wang Qingsong, Shuji Terayama
- Interests
- Film, music and literature.
I'm interested to meet gallerists, artcollectors and artists around the world.
- Centre of the artworld:
- another city
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Exhibition "Contactee / Period", Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, 19.10-19.12.2009
Exhibition "Contactee / Period", Institute of Cybernetics, Tallinn, 19.10-19.12.2009 Tiiu Rebane & Karl-Kristjan Nagel http://www.erztria.narod.ru/Exhibition.Contactee.html
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Posted on 17th November 2009 at 10:30pm —
Exhibition "Punkt / Period", Academic Library of Tallinn University (cafe), 10-11.2009
Exhibition "Punkt / Period", Academic Library of Tallinn University (cafe), 10-11.2009 Tiiu Rebane & Karl-Kristjan Nagel http://www.erztria.narod.ru/Exhibition.Period.html
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Posted on 17th October 2009 at 10:00am —
Exhibition "Solutions", Estonian Embassy in Moscow, 06-08.2009
Exhibition "Solutions", Estonian Embassy in Moscow, 06-08.2009 Paintings by Tiiu Rebane, Karl Nagel and Reri http://www.erztria.narod.ru/CF.html
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Posted on 17th August 2009 at 3:30pm —
Last-Studio Mix V.&VI.- "Russian Punk-Rock-Psyche, II" & "Secret Psych, II"
Last-Studio Mix V. - "Russian Punk-Rock-Psyche, II" http://www.erztria.narod.ru/LSd.mix5.html Last-Studio Mix VI. - "Secret Psych, II" http://www.erztria.narod.ru/LSd.mix6.html
Posted on 14th August 2009 at 4:01pm —
Last-Studio music mix IV. - "Russian Punk-Rock-Psyche, I"
Last-Studio music mix IV. - "Russian Punk-Rock-Psyche, I" / + Instruction for Survival - "Pamyat" (1991) http://www.erztria.narod.ru/LSd.mix4.html You find information about the groups in links. Or just ask me if you dont understand the language. Here is more> http://www.erztria.narod.ru/Last-Studio.html
Posted on 12th April 2009 at 6:00pm —
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Echafot (Échafaud means gallows in french ) is the nickname that belongs to one young activist from Moscow. I painted his photo-portret with a damaged nose, cause it suited to my 2005. exhibition what was about russian radicals (national-bolshevics).
Estonian Art Museum (Kumu) got interested of some Fonarik's collages with that painting and ordered the whole series. Also these works were exhibited in France this year:
http://www.erztria.narod.ru/Exhibition.Stranger.html
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I want to invite you to join me in the pure painting art http://www.artreview.com/group/puraismo . I would be honourable if You wanted to participate in the group of my friends. Beppe
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