HOGSHEAD 733 U GALERIJI HESTIA
Maksim Berto i Mark Požlep u jedriličarskoj avanturi - Soutiene de Famille
Galerija i umetnička rezidencija Hestia, u periodu od aprila do juna 2022. godine predstavila je izložbu Hogehead 733. U pitanju je multimedijalni umetnički projekat umetnika Maksima Bertoa (Maxime Berthou) i Marka Požlepa (Mark Požlep) koji je izrastao iz jedriličarske misije dua.
Plovidba se odvila na Soutien de Famille, starom ribarskom jedrenjaku iz Bretanje (Francuska) koji je započeo svoje putovanje u avgustu 2015. godine u Treburdenu (Trebeurden), brodogradilištu u Bretanji i potom uspešno stigao na odredište nekih mesec dana kasnije, nakon otprilike 733 pređene milje, kada je jedrenjak doplovio do ostrva Ajlej (Islay) u Škotskoj gde se nalazi destilerija viskija Banabejn (Bunnahabhain). Budući da je brod napravljen od specifične vrste belog francuskog hrasta kitnjaka iz šume Tronse (Tronçais), kao takav će kroz trajanje projekta doživeti razne transformacije. Naime, cilj umetnika je bio da dožive avanturu plovidbe na jedrenjaku od pomenutog materijala jer je upravo to drvo korišćeno za izgradnju ratnih brodova pre industrijske revolucije i pronalaska parne mašine, a kasnije je bilo upotrebljavano za pravljenje buradi za viski.
U okviru izložbe prikazivan je film Soutien de Famille u Jugoslovenskoj kinoteci. Soutien de Famille prikazivan je u okviru različitih festivala, a osvojio je i različita priznanja i nagrade poput The Best Film Award na Tortona IndieFilm Session u Torinu i u dve kategorije na festivalu Only the Best International Film Awards - Only the Best Indie Feature i Only The Best First Time Director.
Galerija i umetnička rezidencija Hestia je osnovana 2017. godine sa ciljem uspostavljanja interkulturalnog dijaloga između umetničkih scena koje pripadaju državama Globalnog Juga i koje su često izostavljene iz preovladajućeg umetničkog diskursa. Hestia pored izložbenog prostora sadrži i boravak za umetnike na rezidenciji, ali i biblioteku čiji naslovi pružaju vredan uvid u stanje savremene umetnosti u regijama kao što su Latinska Amerika, Bliski Istok i Balkan.
HOGSHEAD 733 IN HESTIA GALLERY [April - June 2022]
Maxime Berthou and Mark Požlep in artistic sailing adventure - Soutien de Famille
Hogshead 733 by Maxime Berthou and Mark Požlep is an artistic sailing mission about various transformations. Hogshead 733 exhibition in gallery Hestia in Belgrade was showing during April and May 2022.
In the first place the transformation of an old sailing ship called Soutien de Famille made of oak into two large whiskey barrels of 250 litres each – so-called hogshead, then the transformation of the maturation of necessary ingredients into whiskey itself, and finally, the transformation that the artists experienced while sailing for a month from the shipyard Trebeurden in Brittany to the whiskey distillery Bunnahabhain in Scotland.
Combining adventure with art, Bertou and Požlep have created an exceptional interdisciplinary project that balances between film and visual contemporary art. The Hogshead 733 exhibition takes us back to the times of traditional craftsmanship that are often considered extinct in our technocratic age, but also to the times of colonialism, where the presented visuals evoke scenes of Dutch seascapes of the Golden Age. Along with the word “tradition”, it should be noted that the artists emphasize the connections of the modern age of consumerism with the past, where we may simply remember Orwell’s 1984 and understand that the past is even more important than the future because it is not easy to monitor and control a man who knows the past.
As part of the exhibition, the film Soutien de Famille was shown at the Yugoslav Film Archive. Soutien de Famille was screened at various festivals and won recognitions and awards such as The Best Film Award at Tortona IndieFilm Session in Turin and in two categories at the festival Only the Best International Film Awards - Only the Best Indie Feature and Only The Best First Time Director.
