January 24th, 2012
I had a small artist talk in Helsinki, last Friday in the Designmuseum. Event I was kindly asked to present my works was a kick-of for the Nordic jewellery exhibition FROM THE COOLEST CORNER. It was truly great to see my Finnish friends and colleagues! I had very good time. Unfortunately I caught cold and I am unplugged for a little while.
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Kaire Rannik in A-Gallery
January 12th, 2012
My friend Kaire recently opened her solo exhibition, dedicated to his grandfather who was a gold- and clocksmith in Tallinn. On the image you can see her grandfathers workshop window in the beginning of last century in the Old Town. In her new works Kaire combined silver engravings made once by his grandfather with her own vision of items to be most commonly ordered from the gold-and clocksmiths workshops. Kaire still uses some of his grandfathers tools. Beautiful show. I will try to take some images from display one day too.
Show remains open until 30.01.2012 in the A-Gallery.
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January 4th, 2012
Dear friends, happy, happy, happy new year and lots of good thoughts!
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December 21st, 2011
Today my course ended in the Art Academies jewellery department. Six talented students from seven walked till the end with me, the only one who dropped out had great potential but lack of discipline seemed to be this invisible wall he was incapable to concur.
I enjoyed it.
Now back to my own work.
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My works in DREAMSCAPE, Lithuania
December 11th, 2011
If you are now by coincident in Vilnius, then please have a look!
Pressrelease by the Gallery
(AV17) gallery has the honour to present international conceptual jewellery exhibition DREAMSCAPE. The opening will take place at 6 p.m. on 8th of December at (AV17) gallery, Aušros vartų str. 17, Vilnius. The exhibition will be open till the 10th of January, 2012. In DREAMSCAPE exhibition four different Baltic States schools of jewellery unite. This intriguing exhibition reveals not only the thematic essence of the DREAMSCAPE, but also the distinction of Baltic States jewellery art. Here the audience will be able to take a look at the embodiments of various visions and expressions of dreams by different artists. Thus the visions which could have been seen by artist while he was working on one or other object often may seem incredible. This exhibition is like disclosure of individual secrets, sphere of personal intuitions and dreams. It makes this exhibition exceptional, differs it from other expositions by approaching works to the ethereal space. One of the participant countries Lithuanian Jewellery and metal smith speciality in Telšiai has built up a fair experience and history. Established in 1931 today it is still the only one jewellery art school (VAA Telšiai faculty of arts, Department of metal plastic) in Lithuania. This department strongly and without a doubt is related to Tallinn jewellery tradition – many of jewellery professors at Telšiai faculty graduated there. Hereby consistent technical and artistic knowledge of jewellery art and unique, minimal jewellery design which is inherent to north countries from Estonia were brought to Lithuania. Probably the strongest in the Baltic States Estonian jewellery school distinguish for a specific curriculum which encourages combining professional skills with contemporary conceptual thinking. The strong side of Estonian Academy of Arts jewellery faculty was determined also by the fact that during soviet times it was the only one working higher education school of metal art – many were appealed to study there then. In exhibition DREAMSCAPE 34 artists from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland will present miscellaneous works made with unbridled fantasy. Lithuania in exhibition will be represented by most famous artists: Beata Zdramytė, Karina Kazlauskaitė, Akvilė Glinskytė, Jurgita Erminaitė - Šimkuvienė, Eglė Čėjauskaitė – Gintalė, Šarūnė Vaitkutė, Dainius Narkus, Julius Vaitkus, Vita Pukštaitė, Aurelija Šimkutė, Vita Pukštaitė, Sandra Malaškevičiūtė, Saulius Vaitiekūnas, R. Mėnulio Katinas, Tadas Deksnys, Andrius Gudišauskas, Rima Zaveckaitė, Rasa Špokauskaitė, Boris Kurkov and Domas Ignatavičius. Works of well known Estonian jewellers will be presented: Annika Kedelauk, Birgit Skolimowski, Kristiina Kibe, Pilleriin Jurisoo, Julia Maria Kunnap, Nils Hint, Ettel Poobus, Katrin Beljaev, Tanel Veenre, Ketli Tiitsar bei Kristi Paap. Estonians, who participate well, have delivered their unique cultural expression, while Lithuanians tended to the individual presentation. In exhibition Latvian jewellery will be represented by works of Ilze Kibure and Dace Vitola, and also well-known authors from Poland will participate like Arek Wolski and Karolina Bik. Karolina described her work “Tree” like this: “I found this piece of dried wood in a hard time of my life. While a tragedy touched me. Creating this brooch I had in my mind that desire to transform this unattractive piece of wood into something beautiful. Trusting that by this ritual I could bring fortune into my life. Therefore this piece has a message for anyone who will wear it… it is endowed with the energy of hope…” Show of dreams and visions created by these professional Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Polish jewellers will take place in Vilnius. Dreamscape is an exhibition of unified works into which artists implicates their own empathies, hopes and dreams, or maybe as well this is how they create separate corner into which every viewer could come.
Curator Egle Dean
(AV17)GALLERY
Aušros vartų g. 17, Vilnius
+370 52125791
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Maria Valdma – GUESTHOUSE
December 11th, 2011
My dear friend Maria Valdma opened recently her solo exhibition in the Gallery Iida.
Rusty iron, black oak, drops of gold and overwhelming melancholia, all displayed on old window frames- beautiful.
Have a look until the end of January!
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Eimantas Ludavičius
December 9th, 2011
” heaven 12 km”
Today I attended the opening of the exhibition of Eimantas Ludavičius and Kornelija Gerikaite in A-Gallery. Later on Eimantas gave an artist talk. Once again I was blown away by his talent. I remember him from school, as extreamly hard working guy, who was always in the workshops. He is still like an engineer, architect, mad scientist and an artist in one person. If you go to Vilnius, you all can see many commission works he has made for public spaces.
The exhibition remains open until 03.01. 2012
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Now it starts- OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS!
November 19th, 2011
Dear friends, colleagues! I am very happy to tell you that this week we announced the OPEN CALL for Tallinn 6th Applied Art Triennial 2012, with the title “The Art of Collecting”.
OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS! Tallinn 6th Applied Art Triennial 2012
CONCEPT: “The Art of Collecting”
CURATOR: Love Jönssson (Rootsi)
EXHIBITION: The triennial is international with no geographical restrictions. It is open to both professionals and university students. The artist must hold the copyright to his or her own work, and the work may not have been created under an academic supervisor. The exhibition will take place from 23.11.2012 through 3.02.2013 at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Tallinn, Estonia. www.etdm.ee
JURY: Works for the exhibition will be selected by an international jury leaded by the curator of the exhibition. The selection will be chosen anonymously and will be based on submitted digital image material received by March 5th, 2012. The jury will choose the prizes to be awarded from amongst the exhibited works prior to the exhibition’s opening.
AWARDS: The prize fund is 4000 euros. A Grand Prix and two equal 2nd place prizes will be awarded. The jury reserves the right to make changes in the awarding of prizes. Prizes will be announced at the exhibition opening on 23 November 2012.
CATALOGUE: A catalogue of the triennial’s exhibitions and other activities will be published, of which every participant will receive a free copy.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: March 5, 2012
ORGANISER: The triennial is being organised by the NGO Tallinn Applied Art Triennial Society.
CONCEPT, TERMS OF PARTICIPATION, APPLICATION FORM AND MORE ABOUT PREVIOUS TRIENNIALS FROM TRIENNIAL WEBSITE:
Tallinn 6. Applied Art Triennial
The Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
Lai Str 17
10133 Tallinn, Estonia
Contact person: Ketli Tiitsar
PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION!
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“The Ring- Jewel Forever” at ETDM
November 10th, 2011
Already tomorrow, the opening of exciting ring exhibition in ETDM. The exhibition features over one hundred rings made by the artists who have had their solo exhibitions in the gallery Hnoss. Unfortunately this gallery stopped working on regular bases since October 9th 2011.
You all are welcome! Exhibition remains open until 15.01.2012.
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Stairs
November 1st, 2011
I started teaching assignment inspired by architecture in the Academy. Lets see what comes out of it. I am intrigued and curious!
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