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SEB Gallery 28.11.2001-08.01.2002
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| A spectacular exposition of mixed-technique pictures of Juss Piho, an artist and cartoonist, is full of humour, irony, grotesque and fantasy that gives an invigorating pause to things that need to be taken care of in the end of the year. |
| The exhibition has a simple and earthly title - THE STAIRCASE - that first of all has for the author a philosophical meaning. |
| These small stairs are a repeated motif on many pictures of the artist as an eternal possibility to step and go, either to this or that side of the conceptual line. Piho\'s staircases let the walker disappear into the horizon without giving specific reasons or to stop for a moment and turn back. Stairs of JUSS PIHO invite everybody to walk on them and to see things from there differently. |
| 25 small works, being exposed at the exhibition, create an intriguing world that tells us about extraordinary co-existence of common things and people. The world, where everything is familiar, but still so different, where everything seems to be allowed, at least in fantasies. Being set up in a line, the works create the feeling of a strange story. This story is like a circle without a determined beginning and end. It is up to the viewer to decide, from where the story starts or ends. Each picture, on which the glance suddenly stops, gives the chance to say: once upon a time, there lived..... or: if they are not yet dead, then.... |
| Figures move from picture to picture. The world, surrounding them consists of stairs, door openings, houses, roads, whatever takes them somewhere or makes them act. Jugs, pipes, fishes, apples, cats - the picture characters are entitled to take everybody and everything from the room - to mix up the habitual roles of creatures and ways of using and things, to turn them upside down, to think them bigger and smaller as they please. |
| Different reality, created by Juss Piho, is not a playground only for his picture characters. Through the artist\'s fantasy his works turn into means, through which to remind the viewer of the senselessness of the daily routine and the possibility to see and do things differently from the usual ways. |
| Juss Piho has also designed this year\'s Christmas cards of the Eesti Ühispank, the originals of which are exposed at the exhibition. |
| Eesti Ühispank and the Haus Gallery wish all the visitors unforgettable moments at the exhibition! |
