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Haus Gallery 15.06.2004-15.07.2004

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Tango x 2

Tango will be explored by artists from Argentina and USA.

José Mario Ansalone (1943) is an Argentinian artist, whose last personal exhibitions have taken place in the Palais de Glace museum in Buenos Aires, in New York in the Art Centre of the Angel Orensanz Fund and in Buenos Aires in Academia Nacional del Tango. In the last two places Ansalone exposed jointly with Sirje Okas Ainso “Tango X 2”.

Art scientist Kurt Müller has characterized works by Ansalone as follows:


Once you face any of his work, you cannot disregard it. There is an element Charged with tragedy in it, Which cannot de disguised, not even when he means to do it. Based on a formal drawing, the figures try to get out of their place with a movement that at times seems rather clumsy, and that at times gets tangled, and that starts from a firstly organized pattern; then if (it is) necessary for its aim, it will be disarticulated, as if showing the other character we all have inside.
Sirje Okas Ainso is an artist of the Estonian origin, who has lived and studied in Argentina and in USA. During last years Ainso has mainly lived in New York. The artist has had personal exhibitions in addition to Buenos Aires and New York also in Canada (Toronto), Finland (Helsinki), Bolivia (La Paz) and Estonia (Pärnu). Her works have also been exposed in Sweden, France, Spain and Italia.Art critic of the biggest edition of a daily newspaper of  La Paz (Bolivia) renders his opinion of Ainso’s exhibition in Bolivia in 1999 on the topic “A tropical and big city jungle” as follows:
An intimate contact with the American continent has deeply influenced the artist’s vision. In her works are reflected similar magical realism and phantasy, which have brought fame to several outstanding Latin-American writers of the 20. century prior to her appearance.

 “Tango x 2” joins the views of artists of two nationalities on tango. Tango is by no means longer only a dance, but a world of itself. Oil paintings by Ansalone express the mystical side of tango: mysticism, grotesque, visions. Ainso is in her works poetic, tender, even romantic. Two different visions are melted at the exhibition into one integer.


Once you face any of his work, you cannot disregard it. There is an element Charged with tragedy in it, Which cannot de disguised, not even when he means to do it. Based on a formal drawing, the figures try to get out of their place with a movement that at times seems rather clumsy, and that at times gets tangled, and that starts from a firstly organized pattern; then if (it is) necessary for its aim, it will be disarticulated, as if showing the other character we all have inside.
Sirje Okas Ainso is an artist of the Estonian origin, who has lived and studied in Argentina and in USA. During last years Ainso has mainly lived in New York. The artist has had personal exhibitions in addition to Buenos Aires and New York also in Canada (Toronto), Finland (Helsinki), Bolivia (La Paz) and Estonia (Pärnu). Her works have also been exposed in Sweden, France, Spain and Italia.Art critic of the biggest edition of a daily newspaper of  La Paz (Bolivia) renders his opinion of Ainso’s exhibition in Bolivia in 1999 on the topic “A tropical and big city jungle” as follows:
An intimate contact with the American continent has deeply influenced the artist’s vision. In her works are reflected similar magical realism and phantasy, which have brought fame to several outstanding Latin-American writers of the 20. century prior to her appearance.

 “Tango x 2” joins the views of artists of two nationalities on tango. Tango is by no means longer only a dance, but a world of itself. Oil paintings by Ansalone express the mystical side of tango: mysticism, grotesque, visions. Ainso is in her works poetic, tender, even romantic. Two different visions are melted at the exhibition into one integer.

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