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Toomas Vint

(1944)

Toomas Vint’s enchanting works, which are recognizable in a good way, have every detail exactly composed, every blade of grass and corner of light has been thought through – analysis, which results in a metaphysically affecting painting, spiritual ideal landscape experience, where everything seems clean and forever unimpaired. The phenomenal exquisiteness of the artist has fed the ardour of the art researchers and the audience, his so called not-from-this-world-landscape rises above the usual landscape.

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1966 graduated from the Tartu State University in the specialty of biology
1967- 1971 worked in the ETV as a producer\'s assistant
1973 member of the Estonian Artists\' Association
1994 member of the Estonian Writers\' Association

 

A freelance painter and writer

 

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

 

1969  Cafe “Pegasus”, Tallinn
1973  Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone
1977  Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone
1980  the Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn
1984  the House of Writers, St.Petersburg
1985  Gallery Draakon, Tallinn
1987  Gallery Gorky, Paris
1988  Port Louis exhibition building, Mauritius
1991  Gallery Tokko & Arrak, Tallinn
1994  Gallery Sammas, Tallinn
1996  the Nõmme Galerii, Tallinn
1997  “An endless landscape”, the Tallinna Kunstihoone
1998  “A view of a landscape”, the Tartu Art House
 City Gallery, Pärnu
2000  “Landscapes in a glass house”, Eesti Ühispank, Tallinn
 “Sofa and clouds”, Gallery Vaal, Tallinn
2001  Eesti Energia, Tallinn
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

1977 Szczecin, Poznan, Warsaw (with A.Vint), Poland
1989 “10 Soviet painters”, Musei Civici di Villa Mirabello, Varese, Italy
1990 Helsinki Eastern Centre, Kotka City Gallery (with E.Kokamägi and J.Arro)
 

SELECTION OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:

 

1974 EXPO ´74, Spokane, USA
1975 “Modern Soviet art”, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Japan
the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
1978 the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
Exhibition of the Estonian art, La Louviere, Belgium
1979 Triennal of the Baltic Youth Art, Vilnius
“Estonian and Russian graphics and painting”, Helsingin Taidetalo
Exhibition of the Estonian art, St.Petersburg
1980 “Modern Soviet painting \'80”, Japan
“The Soviet painters”, London
1981 the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
1982 “The Soviet painters”, Venice, Italy
“Vene maalikunstnikud”, Hamburg, Germany
1983 “The Soviet painters”, Gorky Galerii, Paris
1984 the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
the Basel Art Fair, Switzerland
Art Expo Chicago, USA
1985 “Landscape painting of the Russian and Soviet painters”, Dresden, Germany
Art Expo Montreal, Canada
1986 Art Expo Chicago, USA
“Modern Tallinn painting”, the Kiel City Museum, Germany
“Man in the Soviet painting”, Essen, Germany
1987 “Art of the Soviet Estonia”, Moscow
1988 Art Expo Budapesht, Hungary
Art Expo New York, USA
1989 “Dialog”, Ville de Ulis, Centre Boris Vian, Paris
IV Exhibition of the Soviet figurative art, Costakis Art Gallery, Athens
1990 Exhibition of 15 Estonian artists, Gallery GKM, Malmö, Sweden
1992 “Myth and abstraction”, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995 “From Gulag to Glasnost”, the Zimmerl Art Museum, Rutgers University, USA
1996 “Tallinn - Moscow 1956 - 1985”, the Tallinna Kunstihoone
“Romantik des Nordens”, Krefeld, Germany
1998 Exhibition of the Estonian art, the Peter\'s Church, Toronto, Canada
“Estisk Nutidskunst”, the Randers Art Museum, Denmark
1999 Annual exhibition of painting, the Tallinna Kunstihoone
2000 “The Estonian art - the Estonian possibilities”, the Tallinna Kunstihoone
“The Estonian painting at the turn of the millennium”, the Tallinna Kunstihoone
 

PRIZES:

 

1977 Prize of the Vinni ES
1978 IV Vilnius Painting Triennal, prize of the city of Vilnius
diploma of the Artists\' Association of the USSR
1979 I Triennal of the Baltic Youth Art, diploma
Fr.Tuglas short story prize
1981 V Vilniuse Painting Triennal, prize of magazine “Kulturos Baras”
1984 Fr.Tuglas short story prize
1986 Medal of Konrad Mägi
1988 Certificate: 1988 New York Art Expo
 

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:

 

The Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinna Kunstihoone, the Tretyakovi Gallery, Moscow; the Russian Art Museum, St.Petersburg; the Perm Art Museum, Russia; Gallery Costakis, Greece; the Zimmel Art Museum, several public buildings of the United States of America, many private collections in Europe, America, Japan.

 

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