Tartu Art House opens three new exhibitions on 10 March at 18.00
Tartu Art House
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Danel Kahar and Grisli Soppe-Kahar “Black Moomins and Planet Earth. Flowers for the Living”
Holger Loodus “Volume. Imaginary Concert for Seven Steam Engines”
Angela Soop “Diem perdidi”
Danel Kahar ja Grisli Soppe-Kahar “Black Moomins and Planet Earth. Flowers for the Living”
10.03.–02.04.2017
Opening 10.03. at 18.00
The artist couple working in large format expressive bad painting is first and foremost interest in what enters their works on its own and with no self-censorship. Painting, unlike spoken word, allows honest self-expression and ways of seeing the world. At the same time, nothing can be hidden and the selected method of expression is only used to convey the desired topics and emotions in the best possible manner. The works use their own surreptitious language to speak about the circular pattern of life both on the larger and on the smaller scale. Every viewer can recognize something that is familiar to them.
Grisli Soppe-Kahar (b 1990) has a bachelor's and master's degrees in painting from the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has participated in group exhibitions in Tallinn, Pärnu and Tartu. Her works were on display at the Young Painter Prize exhibition in Vilnius. Her first personal exhibition was in 2015 in Draakoni gallery in Tallinn.
Danel Kahar (b 1990) graduate with a bachelor's degree in painting from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2016. His first personal exhibition took place this winter in Draakoni gallery in Tallinn.
Holger Loodus “Volume. Imaginary Concert for Seven Steam Engines”
10.03.–02.04.2017
Opening 10.03. at 18.00
According to the artist, Holger Loodus's new painting series “Volume. Imaginary Concert for Seven Steam Engines” contemplates the birth of Modernism. Steam engine, the central figure of the present exhibition, seems more abstract and less talkative than Loodus's previous series that have been about people of the future, walking the dog and taking a vacation. It must be said, however, that if at first kinetic objects were only used as tools by the artist, then by now they have discreetly started occupying paintings themselves. Weirdly enough, the narrative power and film-like nature of the paintings that Loodus is famous for has only grown because of this.
Holger Loodus (b 1970) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Art's heritage and restoration department, he supplemented his studies at the media art department of Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2001 and in 2012 he graduated with a master's degree in painting from the Estonian Academy of Art. In 2012, he received the Young Artist prize for his personal exhibition “2150. Portraits” in Draakoni gallery in Tallinn. He has also exhibited in Berlin and participated in group exhibitions in Tallinn Art Hall and in Kumu Art Museum.
Angela Soop “Diem perdidi”
08.03.–02.04.2017
Exhibition is open from 09.03.
Angela Soop binds fabrics and painting into an installation that has been inspired by the spatial parameters of the monumental gallery and talks about the feeling of security. “The need for protection is sharply felt when fear approaches. Being outside is sometimes less scary, but looking from the outside it is not visible what is happening inside. To see and to know, one must enter. Of course, being inside doesn't change the situation. The only thing that changes is the scale: bounded and limitless.”
Angela Soop (b 1970) has studied in Academia Non-Grata, received a bachelor's degree in painting from the Estonian Academy of Art and is currently studying for her master's degree at the same school. She has had personal exhibitions in Tallinn, Pärnu, Haapsalu and Tartu. Besides painting, she is also an active and renowned drawer.
Additional information:
Indrek Grigor
Tartu Art House gallerist
[email protected]
5559 1425
www.kunstimaja.ee
Tartu Art House (Vanemuise 26, Tartu, Estonia) is open Wed–Mon 12–18. Exhibitions are free of charge.
The exhibitions of the Tartu Art House are supported by the Tartu Town Government and the Cultural Capital of Estonia.
Last changed 08.03.2017
