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Jarõna Ilo

Sündinud / Born 1955

Drawings by Jarõna Ilo are suitable both to illustrate a school textbook and to be displayed in an exhibition hall. She is not too picky at minor details and scientific, but she does select her motifs from strangely concealed places that are quite odd for an artist to visit. Ilo has also suppressed colours which are so characteristic to nature and that should certainly inspire and enchant an artist. We may feel that the picture, being offered to us by Ilo, has pauperized its object, has tarnished it. But still Ilo is the most exact and honest one. She is an artist who is able to concentrate on the most significant, who possesses a strange emphatic ability that does not start attacking the already existing figures, but is trying to find their nature. For the natural world a deer on a meadow is just a contingency. Ilo digs into details, finding both the joy of drawing and meaningful challenges. The form in series gives us the hint that Ilo does not work spontaneously, but in a systematic manner, gradually, without giving up. And at a certain moment these works start to form a meditative line. By digging herself into the details of nature, Ilo also sets into rhythm her personal perception of the world.

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