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SEB Gallery 03.07.2002-05.08.2002

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ON THE WATER LINE

Midsummer is celebrated in the exhibition hall of Eesti Ühispank!
 
This time the Haus Gallery celebrates in the gallery of Eesti Ühispank summer landscapes of a well-known lecturer and painter, Uno Roosvalt.
 
Uno Roosvalt is one of the few artists in the modern artistic scenery, who has consistently remained true to the landscape paintings. His painting style is characteristically individual. Roosvalt\'s abstract landscapes are vigorous, often being in strong, expressive, but also in contradiction in delicate white tones. In most cases the artist concentrates on a single motif, enchanting him, painting it into a grand landscape, generalising emotions, having been received from the nature.
 
When the effect of the Roosvalt\'s landscapes is emphasized by large formats, then among the exhibition works in Eesti Ühispank can also be found smaller ones. Works have been accomplished in method, being characteristic to the artists already for years. His paintings are made in a studio, but their motifs originate directly from the nature, where in the course of the preparatory works are previously being made drawings and taken photos. We see oil paintings from the year 2002, the subjects of which come from Väike-Pakri, Paldiski and the region of Maarjamäe, home of the artist.
 
The works are connected, as it is also seen in the heading of the title of the exhibition, by the water line. Water line in the Roosvalt\'s paintings has the effect of a timeless decoration, on the foreground of which the nature stages the grand spectacle of its existence - his characters on the paintings seem to have stopped for a moment for memorizing as episodes the single moods of the nature.
 

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