April 2011

Man & Woman exhibition in 2010.

Links to previous shows:
Man & Woman 2010
Man & Woman 2006
Man & Woman 2004
Man & Woman 2003

April 27, 2011

I am a Finnish painter, author and illustrator. I live in Helsinki but I have been spending a lot of time also in Middle-east, Spain and Turkey. Experiences of the foreign countries and cultures have influenced my works quite much. Often I hear that my colors are not typically Finnish. Maybe it is true. But more I thing that those years I spend abroad encourage me as an artist to express myself more openly. They did not change my northern identity. Red, yellow and turquoise were already in me.
We Finnish people have also bright colors deep inside us. This exhibition includes my paintings from past few years. Recent of them have been completed this winter.
I painted about joy and about hope, against the gloomy clouds of my soul. If these works will bring some pleasure to those who will see them, I am satisfied.
To spread joy and hope, I thing, is one of the purposes of art.
Beauty is love.
In the exhibition Joy, beauty and hope there are 15 works, all of them are painted with oil on canvas. They have been created between years 2005 and 2011. Some of them have been exhibited earlier in Finland and some in Tallinn, Estonia, in autumn 2010.
/Riikka Juvonen/

September 29, 2010

Ulvi Haagensen "How to become free" at the Museum of New Art in Pärnu, 1 – 24 October 2010. 

Artist Ulvi Haagensen, born 1964 in Sydney, has been lecturing at the Estonian Academy of Arts in the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing since 1999. 
This exhibition is based on the story of a family from Pärnu who left Estonia at the end of the war. They ended up in Australia. Haagensen has used photographs taken by her father and compiled an "artist's book" or story that unfolds like the stills of a film before the viewer's eyes.
"Was this freedom? Of course the idea was to escape and become free from the Soviet powers, but what lay ahead, was this freedom?" asks Haagensen.
In addition to the photographic work, the exhibition comprises wire drawings that function as broader symbols for leaving and farewell, as well as new hope.
Combining two and three dimensional expression Ulvi Haagensen's wire objects are unique in Estonian art today. 
Haagensen raises the issue of freedom and what freedom means for each person. The story begins in Pärnu, her father's hometown, and is like a symbolic homecoming.

May 31, 2010

The international nude exhibit "Man & Woman" will be held for the 17th year. The exhibition will start with a one-week creative period during which guest artists will be making thematic pieces in workshops.

This year’s topic is “Great feelings, delicate relationships”.
The 17th nude exhibit “Man and Woman” features such European artistic celebrities as Mari Meszaros (Hungary-Holland), Mark Angus (UK), Stanislav and Radka Muller (Czech), Inguna Audere (Latvia).

Estonian glass art will be represented by Ivo Lill, Rait Prääts, Piret Ellamaa, Kristiina Uslar, Kairit Annus, Kai Koppel, Kairi Roolaht-Orgussaar, Liisi Napp, Sofi Aršas, Tiia Põldmets, Ain Roost.

Although glass art is in the main focus of this year’s nude art show, the topic “Great feelings, delicate relationships” also include the wooden sculptures of Viktor Korneyev, the Russian artist residing in Sweden, the Iranian artist’s Fateme Gosheh’s nude paintings, the bronze and leather sculptures by the Finnish artists Matti Kalkamo and Heli Rühanen, the nude video by the Italian artist Federico Tinelli as well paintings by the Estonian artists Silva Eher.

April 28, 2010

"Blue" is a subject which conveys much more than just questions about colouring.

"Blue" allows us to dedicate to much deeper horizons of time and space.
It is not just colour chemistry on canvas. As soon as "Blue" takes shape, it stops being a colour. Is it a faraway memory which returns us to childhood; an inexplicable sadness rising from eternity; raw power?

The participating artists include Tiit Pääsuke, Andres Tolts, Lemming Nagel, Mari Roosvalt, Mall Nukke, Mall Paris, Jaan Elken, Tiina Tammetalu, Sven Saag, Erki Kasemets, Einar Vene, Sorge, Mati Kütt, Toomas Altnurme, Tiiu Pallo-Vaik etc.

Curators Andres Koort and Lii Pähkel.

March 17, 2010

March 2, 2010

CLASSICAL DANCE PROJECT

Open until March 19, 2010 in the Museum of New Art in Pärnu.
Artists: Vitali Brusinski, Natallia Kovsh.
Project curator: Larisa Mikhnevich.
 

As a creative basis of the project, Program for Choreographic Departments of the Music Schools and Schools of Art, a book written by V. Serdyukov, in 1977, was used as a guide for the classical dancer.
The ABC’s of ballet is animating and getting broader with technological skills within the bounds of the project, where the students of the first class of the Belarusian State College for Choreography perform as the main heroes. Author goes not with celebrities and assured professional artistry, but on primary and spontaneous workmanship.
The realism is warned out point shoes or badly scratched knees are common here. The goal of this project was not to focus on hard ballet work, but its highest realization – a classical dance.