Jaan Toomik
Father and Son 1998
video installation, BETA SP 2:00 1998
It is a cold winter day and a man is skating naked across the Baltic sea. It is the artist. Making several circles around the viewer and accompanied by a choral sung by his ten-year old son, he skates back and disappears into the white radiance from which he came.
First time presented at the City Gallery, Tallinn, 1998.
Also presented in:
I-20 Gallery, New York (1998); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1998); Ludwig Museum, Budapest (1999); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (1999); Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris (2000); Art Moscow 5th International Art Fair (2001); 4th Berlin Biennale (2006); Stazione Leopoldo of Florence (2006); 47th October Salon, Belgrade (2006); Documenta 12, Kassel (2007).