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Haus Gallery 06.02.2023

EXUBERANCE

Estonian Female Artist and Nature

Exuberance - a collection of exhilaratingly abundant and energetic feelings. This is how the word could be explained and how the exhibition in the Haus Gallery could be characterized, featuring 9 well-known Estonian female artists who, by painting nature, have intertwined today's experience with the primordial. Nature is the main theme of the exhibition works, but here it is more of a metaphor that marks the feminine side of the world more broadly - the quiet, glowing tones of warmth and protection, but also the elemental and indeterminacy flowing in a powerfully overflowing emotional color.

Twenty traditional oil and acrylic paintings are presented at the exhibition. The works made in this classic technique point to a longing for real art, at a time when, in the abundance of the Internet, we want to feel the touch of real things - nature. The integrations and oppositions of the two, the real and the technical, are humanity's broader issues to pay attention to through art - an informative image in a time-abstract virtual space versus an oil painting to be seen with your own eyes in one real and ever-passing moment.

Which experience is truer? Either what we perceive ourselves in direct contact with nature, or what we experience by looking at visual interpretations of nature, be they real or virtual. Arguably, our meditative imagination can induce feeling states comparable to reality, but only if we have experienced that reality beforehand. We only feel the wind in the painting, in the colors of which we have walked.

What kind of recognition does the exhibition bring? What is our experience of reality today? To what extent do we create touches of reality in our lives, to be felt again later in some fleeting moments; even in the exhibition hall, forgetting to perceive, without any logical explanation, the flicker of air in the nostril or the raindrop on the cheek, provoked by the delicate yellow and blue color play in the painting. There is nothing logical in art. Art is an urgent need to record and convey experienced sensations in some other, but clearly recognizable form - to paint memories of one's own "Amazonas", which is the same, but not. Art creates completely new self-values. Art is an all-encompassing process, deeply personal and universal, just like the passionate paintings of the female artists in this exhibition.

Without wanting to draw radical boundaries between the sexes or emphasize differences in experience, the difference in the mutually enriching and complementary worldviews of women and men is nevertheless evident. It is female artists who have focused on the nature of emotion and its further development more convincingly than men, creating perceptual spaces from real spaces and moments of life and their sometimes surreal further developments.

 
I remember the artist Georgia O`Keeffe, who was born in 1887 in America and is considered one of the most significant authors of 20th century modernism. A woman who, through her work, painted nature, flowers radiating colorfully from the interior of the painting space, until their abstract transformation, conveyed overflowing emotional sensations that can only be perceived physically. "I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at – not copy it" - she formulated, wanting to create an equivalent to what she felt when she saw her surroundings, without copying it.

 This is the starting point for the exhibitions, which, unfortunately, have a one-word untranslatable title in Estonian - Exuberance, yet being the most accurate verbal equivalent of what our female artists express with their paintings, passing on emotional experiences inspired by nature without copying it, creating completely new spaces of value, personal and at the same time touching everything and real.

The exhibition in Haus Gallery will be open from February 9 to March 9, but this collection, which is inspiring in many ways, touching and illustrative of the moment in time, will certainly find further development on our part.

 
Curator Piia Ausman

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EXHIBITION IN THE INTERIOR

Exuberance - Interior
Haus Galerii Exuberance - Interior 2023. Photo (not framed)
Exuberance - Interior
Haus Galerii Exuberance - Interior 2023. Photo (not framed)
Exuberance - Interior
Haus Galerii Exuberance - Interior 2023. Photo (not framed)
Exuberance - Interior
Haus Galerii Exuberance - Interior 2023. Photo (not framed)

KRISTIINA KAASIK ( 1943 )

Something About the Landscape
Kristiina Kaasik Something About the Landscape 2018. Acrylic, canvas 100 x 100 cm (not framed) price 4 700

STINA MURAKAS ( 1967 - 2012 )

Fields of Golden Opportunities II
Stina Murakas Fields of Golden Opportunities II 2021. Acrylic, canvas 50 x 100 cm (not framed)
Fields of Golden Opportunities I
Stina Murakas Fields of Golden Opportunities I 2021. Acrylic, canvas 50 x 100 cm (not framed)

MAARIT MURKA ( 1981 )

(sold)Treared
Maarit Murka Treared 2022. Oil, canvas 180 x 120 cm (not framed) price 6 200
Converted I
Maarit Murka Converted I 2010-2023. Oil, canvas 180 x 120 cm (framed) price 6 800

MALL NUKKE ( 1964 )

(sold)Perspectives
Mall Nukke Perspectives 2022. Oil, canvas 150 x 150 cm (not framed) price 13 200
(sold)At the Edge of the Cloud 1
Mall Nukke At the Edge of the Cloud 1 2020. Oil, canvas 90 x 135 cm (not framed) price 5 900
At the Edge of the Cloud 2
Mall Nukke At the Edge of the Cloud 2 2021. Oil, canvas 90 x 135 cm (not framed) price 5 900

SIRJE PETERSEN ( 1959 )

Stormy
Sirje Petersen Stormy 2019. Oil, canvas 90 x 120 cm (not framed) price 4 700
(sold)A Dream
Sirje Petersen A Dream 2022. Oil, canvas 40 x 50 cm (not framed)
In the Wind of Change
Sirje Petersen In the Wind of Change 2020. Oil, canvas 83 x 150 cm (not framed) price 5 600

JANE REMM ( 1978 )

Green
Jane Remm Green 2018. Oil, canvas 160 x 195 cm (not framed)

MARI ROOSVALT ( 1945 )

Meeting
Mari Roosvalt Meeting 2021. Oil, canvas, mixed media 90 x 90 cm (not framed)
Ozone II
Mari Roosvalt Ozone II 2014. Oil, canvas, mixed media 100 x 110 cm (not framed)

MARIS TUULING ( 1968 )

In the Shade II
Maris Tuuling In the Shade II 2022. Oil, canvas, cardboard 60 x 50 cm (framed) price 1 300
In the Shade I
Maris Tuuling In the Shade I 2022. Oil, canvas, cardboard 60 x 50 cm (framed) price 1 300
(sold)Looked Back
Maris Tuuling Looked Back 2023. Oil, canvas, cardboard 70 x 60 cm (framed)

LIISI ÖRD ( 1984 )

(sold)Pine trees. Lake Landscape
Liisi Örd Pine trees. Lake Landscape 2023. Oil, canvas 70 x 100 cm (not framed)

SANTA ZUKKER ( 1991 )

Blue
Santa Zukker Blue 2023. Oil, acrylic, canvas 60 x 40 cm (framed) price 1 400