"Lendva" exhibition assemble flying objects made by Estonian Academy of Arts students, alumnas and sculpture faculty lecturer Elo Liiv during the Tallinn Light Festival workshop.


Photo: Marko H.J. Kuningas

The artists themselves justify their works with the flying fever:

"Our soul host a disease called flying fever that affect humans and animals. The core of the disease is an uncontrollable desire to see something flying in the wind and storm, to direct it and feel the freedom of it as well as of yourself. This disease is incurable unless we can create something we can control. We haven’t succeeded in two years. Here, behind closed doors, between a howling ventilation pipe and ventilators, we have succeeded in managing everything the way we need. We are the rulers, but shall the soul be tamed and the disease cured?"


Photo: Marko H.J. Kuningas

Works inspired by wind, light and flying are made by:

Aleksandr Zverev, Dmitri Gerassimov, Saskia Järve, Ingrid Aasoja, Sigrid Viir, Stanislav Popkov, Timo Toots, Taaniel Raudsepp ja Elo Liiv



Saskia Järve
„Jam” 

flying object, length 420 cm, diameter 150 cm, 2007.
„Jam is not slush that is falling from the sky every year the same way!”

 Elo Liiv
"Comb"

The flying object is representing the tetrakite, constructed by famous creator of telephone A.-G. Bell. Whole Universe having the structure of comb, as the bee honeycomb. Comb connects different worlds.




Ingrid Aasoja and Aleksandr Zverev
"Adnelieat/Badnelat"
(it is not French, only Estonian. If you read from back to beginning)
Flying objects are wonderful possibility to control independently different art’s objects. You can create all things, that you can even imagine and the only thing which you must  consider is responsibility to fly.
We have still remembered that one talented constructor said – “Only beautiful plain can fly”.
So we are searching for esthetical (moral, ethical, historical, air-dynamical) limits of flying beauty.
Light, air and flying.

Stanislav Popkov
„LED ZEPPELIN“

The design was inspired by early flying mashines filled with nitrogen as well as by basic aerodynamic rules, where curved surfaces generate rising power, light. Crbon/plastic structure imitates zeppelin logics, its cetnral console keeps an object in tension and exposes applied forces. The structure can be illuminated, thus, combined with half transparent grey core it becomes clear, that even zeppelin made of "led" can fly.