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Haus Gallery 12.05.2021

Ivar Kaasik

Self-Portrait of Autonomy

The exhibition consists of paintings by Ivar Kaasik from 2019 - 2021. This display of paintings contrasts with the artist's two previous projects, which took place in Berlin and Munich. This exhibition considers the images' autonomy.

The exhibition consists of paintings by Ivar Kaasik from 2019 - 2021. This display of paintings contrasts with the artist's two previous projects, which took place in Berlin and Munich. This exhibition considers the images' autonomy.

The exhibition entitled "Self-Portrait of Autonomy" is a play on both the words and meaning of the exhibition's title. Here, the artist paints cars, both interpreting his own nostalgic experiences with Soviet automobiles and personifying the vehicles - creating autonomic auto portraits.

Ivar Kaasik was born in 1965 in Kuressaare. 1983-92 he studied architecture at the Estonian Academy of Arts (then: Estonian National Institute of Art) and later at the department of metalwork, then worked in various professions - among others as a goldsmith in Germany in 1992-98. Since 1999, Kaasik has been working as a freelance artist. He has been participating in exhibitions since 1989, became a member of the German Painters' Union in 2001 and a member of the Estonian Artists' Union in 2012. Kaasik is also a member of the Estonian Metal Artists' Union. As a writer, Kaasik has expressed himself in a work of words that ignores the common ideas of pathos and art in the book “Caution, Art! What to Do. How and How Much” (2011) which the author has dubbed the genre's “minimum and maximum program.” Ivar Kaasik's creative cycle has lately been spent between Berlin and Tallinn.

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