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SEB Gallery 10.01.2002-08.02.2002

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META 3

Exhibition of Jüri Jegorow\'s digital photos offers a stimulating change to the peaceful mood of the beginning of the year and to the traditional understandings of art.
 
According to the words of the artist himself his works are physically digital photos, but in contents they are computer-photo-graphics. Big works have been executed on special printer paper, smaller ones on photo paper.
 
History of preparing of the works is commented by the author himself accordingly:

\"I have had already 4 personal exhibitions of the insects. For the first time my second personal exhibition \"Cordofonic\" concentrated on the insects, where I presented 12 morbid copper etchings on the theme of insects and string instruments.

 
Some years ago I became an amateur entomologist or started collecting insects. It became clear in the course of the experiments that it is possible to scan the bugs successfully directly from the nature. The result was exeptionally detailed and natural, intriguing me to creation. I gave up the earlier complicated fairy-tale book illustration style retelling direction that I had been using in the copper etching and started to depict insects more freely and in minimalistic context. In such a manner originated the series \"Insect\".
 
With the help of modern technology I achieved in my work the supreme decorativeness. I myself regard these bright, already glowing colour solutions one of the important experimental additional value of the insects series.
 
While handling the next material I decided to manipulate even more with decorativeness. Besides insects I brought into my creation attractive butterflies, combining them with the op-elements of the neo-op-world, originating from the first half of the 20.century and the 70ies. I studied thoroughly the optical philosophy and pattern system of Vasarely. I constructed in the computer a number of op-patterns, adding to the background also a handpainted line. In spite of the stressed decorativeness the storytelling manner returned in a way into my works.
 
Insects, used in the works, have partially been photographed in the Zoological Museum of Tartu, also elements of plants, scanned from the nature.\"
 

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