It’s called Whatever They Do May It All Turn Out Wrong (an ancient curse chosen playing on the line of interpretive misunderstanding), the exhibition that opens Thursday, November 29 at 18 and will remain open to the public until January 6, 2019.
Villa delle Rose returns to host the result of the ROSE Program with the monographic exhibition of the duo Dina Danish & Jean-Baptiste Maitre.
The two artists, selected as part of the 2018/2019 edition of the program and guests of MAMbo – Residenza Sandra Natali, have worked on the production of new works conceived for the headquarters in via Saragozza with which they highlight their interest in ambiguity of linguistic codes and for the reappropriation and alteration of expressive forms acquired from different history and cultural traditions. Through a temporal, spatial and functional shift, the two create new associations of meanings and new connections with the present.
Dina Danish (Paris, 1981) is an Egyptian artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the American University of Cairo and later a Master’s in Fine Arts from the California College of the Arts. He held the Post-graduate study program at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende.
Kunsten of Amsterdam. He has received several awards including Illy Present Future Prize (2011) and Barclay Simpson Award (2008). She was also selected for Prix de Rome, Volkskrant Award and Abraaj Group Art Prize. His works have been exhibited in various locations, including Stedelijk Museum Schiedam and de Art Center, Amsterdam; South London Galleryy, London; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Kunsthall Oslo. In addition, Dina Danish teaches Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam.
Motivated by the need to understand structures and events, Dina Danish uses sculpture, painting, video and performance to generate comic interpretive misunderstandings. Different cultural traditions are mixed in his works, becoming elements for an ironic investigation of the present and its contradictions.
Jean-Baptiste Maitre (Montluçon, 1978) is a French artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. He graduated in History of Art at the Sorbonne Université in 2002 and degrees in Fine Arts at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2004 and in Studio Photography at the Gobelins, the école de l’image – Page officielle of Paris in 2004. Maitre did his internship in History of Art at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in 2001 and worked as a digital image maker in advertising agencies (2004-2007). In 2007 he held the Post-graduate research program at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht and the Post-graduate study program in 2010 at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. Always fascinated by the cinema of origins and the illusory perception of reality, in his work Jean-Baptiste Maitre uses various media including video, photography and painting to process, reinventing images from other media.
