A lot is going on
April 17th, 2012
Op Voorraad is up with new products!
Tallinn Applied Art Triennial jury meeting this week!
Two new amazing exhibitions with opening on Friday in the museum!
Image from Op Voorraad.
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OP VOORRAAD!
March 15th, 2012
My “chestnut pins” are going to be part of great jewellery pop-up store OP VOORRAAD.
Concept of the store is created by 3 ladies, brilliant jewellery makers: Ineke Heerkens Jantje Fleischhut Jeannette Jansen
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Border City in Lisbon – until 23rd of March
March 15th, 2012
It is rather old news, but as I am currently lacking any free time, I am telling this only now. Beautiful space! My work “Traces” has an honor to enjoy this sophisticated ambience and great company.
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February 24th, 2012
Exactly one month ago I became an aunt to adorable, tiny little boy, my brothers first baby. Today while celebrating his first month anniversary we received a phone call from my aunt with a sad news that my great grandmother had left us today, after drinking cup of tea she just fell a sleep, forever. She was 97. And Estonia is celebrating the 94th anniversary of our republic today.
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Eeva Käsper
February 15th, 2012
I had an honor to be a member of the jury to choose the “Recognized Estonian glass artist 2010/2011″. There were four artists nominated: Sofi Aršas, Kristiina Uslar, Kalli Sein and Eeva Käsper. They all have had very intense, creative and successful last two years. But the winner was Eeva Käsper. Besides her individual projects she was one of the initiators of the amazing glass project “World of Glass”. Shortly – percussionist Terje Isungset and trumpet player Arve Henriksen from Norway were creating music using only glass instruments made by Estonian glass artists. If you are interested then click here and you can here the recording. Congratulations Eeva!
Photo from Klaasimaailm
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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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