Toomas Vint’s enchanting works, which are recognizable in a good way, have every detail exactly composed, every blade of grass and corner of light has been thought through – analysis, which results in a metaphysically affecting painting, spiritual ideal landscape experience, where everything seems clean and forever unimpaired. The phenomenal exquisiteness of the artist has fed the ardour of the art researchers and the audience, his so called not-from-this-world-landscape rises above the usual landscape.
CV
1966
graduated from the Tartu State University in the
specialty of biology
1967- 1971
worked in the ETV as a producer\'s
assistant
1973
member of the Estonian Artists\' Association
1994
member of the Estonian Writers\'
Association
A freelance painter and writer
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:
1969
Cafe “Pegasus”, Tallinn
1973
Gallery of the Tallinna
Kunstihoone
1977
Gallery of the Tallinna Kunstihoone
1980
the Estonian Art Museum,
Tallinn
1984
the House of Writers, St.Petersburg
1985
Gallery Draakon,
Tallinn
1987
Gallery Gorky, Paris
1988
Port Louis exhibition building,
Mauritius
1991
Gallery Tokko & Arrak, Tallinn
1994
Gallery Sammas, Tallinn
1996
the Nõmme Galerii, Tallinn
1997
“An endless landscape”, the Tallinna
Kunstihoone
1998
“A view of a landscape”, the Tartu Art
House
City Gallery, Pärnu
2000
“Landscapes in a glass house”, Eesti
Ühispank, Tallinn
“Sofa and clouds”, Gallery Vaal,
Tallinn
2001
Eesti Energia, Tallinn
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1977
Szczecin, Poznan, Warsaw (with A.Vint),
Poland
1989
“10 Soviet painters”, Musei Civici di Villa
Mirabello, Varese, Italy
1990
Helsinki Eastern Centre, Kotka City Gallery (with
E.Kokamägi and J.Arro)
SELECTION OF INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS:
1974
EXPO ´74, Spokane, USA
1975
“Modern Soviet art”, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Japan
the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
1978
the Baltic painting triennal,
Vilnius
Exhibition of the Estonian art, La Louviere,
Belgium
1979
Triennal of the Baltic Youth Art,
Vilnius
“Estonian and Russian graphics and painting”,
Helsingin Taidetalo
Exhibition of the Estonian art,
St.Petersburg
1980
“Modern Soviet painting \'80”, Japan
“The Soviet painters”, London
1981
the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
1982
“The Soviet painters”, Venice, Italy
“Vene maalikunstnikud”, Hamburg, Germany
1983
“The Soviet painters”, Gorky Galerii,
Paris
1984
the Baltic painting triennal, Vilnius
the Basel Art Fair,
Switzerland
Art Expo Chicago, USA
1985
“Landscape painting of the Russian and Soviet
painters”, Dresden, Germany
Art Expo Montreal, Canada
1986
Art Expo Chicago, USA
“Modern Tallinn painting”, the Kiel City Museum,
Germany
“Man in the Soviet painting”, Essen,
Germany
1987
“Art of the Soviet Estonia”, Moscow
1988
Art Expo Budapesht, Hungary
Art Expo New York, USA
1989
“Dialog”, Ville de Ulis, Centre Boris Vian,
Paris
IV Exhibition of the Soviet figurative art,
Costakis Art Gallery, Athens
1990
Exhibition of 15 Estonian artists, Gallery GKM,
Malmö, Sweden
1992
“Myth and abstraction”, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995
“From Gulag to Glasnost”, the Zimmerl Art Museum,
Rutgers University, USA
1996
“Tallinn - Moscow 1956 - 1985”, the Tallinna
Kunstihoone
“Romantik des Nordens”, Krefeld,
Germany
1998
Exhibition of the Estonian art, the Peter\'s
Church, Toronto, Canada
“Estisk Nutidskunst”, the Randers Art Museum,
Denmark
1999
Annual exhibition of painting, the Tallinna
Kunstihoone
2000
“The Estonian art - the Estonian possibilities”,
the Tallinna Kunstihoone
“The Estonian painting at the turn of the
millennium”, the Tallinna Kunstihoone
PRIZES:
1977
Prize of the Vinni ES
1978
IV Vilnius Painting Triennal, prize of the city
of Vilnius
diploma of the Artists\' Association of the
USSR
1979
I Triennal of the Baltic Youth Art,
diploma
Fr.Tuglas short story prize
1981
V Vilniuse Painting Triennal, prize of magazine
“Kulturos Baras”
1984
Fr.Tuglas short story prize
1986
Medal of Konrad Mägi
1988
Certificate: 1988 New York Art Expo
WORKS IN COLLECTIONS:
The Estonian Art Museum, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinna Kunstihoone, the
Tretyakovi Gallery, Moscow; the Russian Art Museum, St.Petersburg; the Perm Art
Museum, Russia; Gallery Costakis, Greece; the Zimmel Art Museum, several public
buildings of the United States of America, many private collections in Europe,
America, Japan.