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Miklos Gaál

Research group TARR

Miklos Gaál (b. 1974 Finland) is a visual artist living in Amsterdam. Gaál studied at University of Art&Design in Helsinki and at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. His artworks have been presented in galleries, institutions and publications internationally since 2001. Merging changing formats of photography, film, text and printed matter, his artist practice is an inquiry into habitual, cultural and lingual distinctions that fabricate the experience of actuality. Currently Gaál is occupied processing these interest with a doctoral research at Fine Arts Academy at Uniarts Helsinki.

Gaál’s doctoral dissertation-in-progress compares the conceptualization of romantic irony* with contemporary artistic practices. Romantic irony is a historical idea of the work of art maintaining multiple commitments without being bound to fixed standpoints of speaking. A specific mode of ‘irony’ that is ‘romantic’ in its character. The research is to contest romantic irony in the present-day as a form of emotional intelligence, and to compare it as the capacity of an abstract textual speaker to that of the artist. The project is a PhD study in fine arts. Romantic irony is the context to discuss the philosophical stance of possessing contradictory sense and the artistic quality of making subversions in a space of fiction. The genre of the dissertation is essay. It consists of artistic practice and a series of written components, applying artistic apprehension on theoretical abstractions and philosophical distinctions that informing the research in equal amounts. * (Friedrich Schlegel, Novalis & al, 1790s Germany, a.k.a. Jena romanticism. Romantic irony is their historical idea about art in its “modern state”, formulated in the group’s collective practice of experimental poetry. It was meant, eventually, to unite art and philosophy.)

news 10 Dec 23

Looking back at Sharing Artistic Research 2023

On the 13th of October 2023, the participating researchers of the research group Third cycle in Artistic Research at the Rietveld (TARR) hosted a public presentation and an exhibition at the Rietveld Gym. The presentation and exhibition was a communal moment for the group of researchers who worked together in the space for three days and experienced and learned more about each other’s work. The talks with the invited respondents, Alice Twemlow and Astrid Korporaal, were very productive and the contact with the public very stimulating.

event

Oct '23

Sharing Artistic Research

Gym, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

TARR – The research group Third cycle in Artistic Research at the Rietveld (TARR) hosts participants both internal and external to the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (GRA) and the Sandberg Instituut (SI), under the coordination of Senior Researcher Paula Albuquerque. It focuses on methodical discussions about artistic research and learning skills for Third cycle candidates and other advanced researchers who are preparing a PhD, a PD or a CrD. The participating researchers will discuss their process and share materials by way of a public presentation and by exhibiting in the space to exchange knowledge and experiences.