Exhibition > Past > SEB Gallery
SEB Gallery 04.09.2008-17.10.2008
Situation
The
so-called travel landscapes constitute a truly remarkable and surprisingly
large chapter in Estonian art. It is a genre that can describe the most outstanding
part of Estonian landscape paintings at the end of the 19th and at
the beginning of the 20th century as all the major artists travelled
to a larger or lesser extent in Northern, Central and Southern Europe and were
productive and successful in their creative work there.
Mari
Roosvalt took a trip to
It is
obvious that if someone stays in an unfamiliar environment for such a short period,
his or her perception of the surroundings can be particularly intense. Knowing
that something will end soon makes one always explore that “something” more
closely and with greater passion. That is what happened with Roosvalt - it took
her just a few weeks to draw inspiration for a whole new series of paintings.
All the corners here are sharp, only one point of view is presented, everything
in her paintings strikes as new and unprecedented, and no mood is captured
twice. Such intensity and freshness of impressions brightens up Roosvalt’s
palette, makes it multicoloured and powerful. No, the artist has not been
afraid of maybe not depicting the “real”
There is yet
another aspect. If a person stays somewhere for not too long, he or she does
not have the time to explore the riches of the country’s cultural heritage,
thousands of characters of the people or hundreds of possibilities in
architecture to their depth. He or she will see only a fragment of the country
(and it is always rather random). That’s why the search for “truth” in
Roosvalt’s works, i.e. what
Yet in the
same way as Roosvalt’s impressions of

Situatsioon I
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media 80 x 80 cm (not framed)
price 2 047

Situatsioon II
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media 80 x 80 cm (not framed)
price 2 100

Situatsioon III
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media 80 x 80 cm (not framed)
price 1 919

Situatsioon IV
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media 80 x 80 cm (not framed)

Sõõr II
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media (not framed)
price 768

Sõõr III
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media (not framed)
price 256

Sõõr IV
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media (not framed)
price 256

Sõõr V
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media (not framed)
price 256

Sõõr VI
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media (not framed)
price 256

Sõõr VII
2008. oil on canvas, mixed media (not framed)
price 256