Our exhibition “HAPPY PEOPLE” in Kärdla Power Station – Part 1 The opening
Contemporary jewellery exhibition “HAPPY PEOPLE”
by KAM kartell
Ketli Tiitsar, Anneli Tammik, Maria Valdma
27.07. – 08.08.2010 in Kärdla power station, Hiiumaa, Estonia
An old abandoned Kärdla Power station is a colourful place where local activists decided to start promoting a diverse range of cultural activities. After discovering this amazing monumental industrial environment with time specific ambience, we came up with the idea to create a jewellery collection inspired by the time when we were born and attended the primary school –
our childhood in Soviet Estonia where everyone was supposed to be politically correct and happy. For us it is intriguing to experiment with the symbols familiar to our parents and contemporaries in the environment, which has not changed for almost thirty years.
„HAPPY PEOPLE“
Uuno and Milvi met in 1970 at the spring party of Tartu University. Milvi was studying Estonian language and literature over there. Uuno was just visiting a friend he knew from the summer job. By this time Uuno was about to graduate from mechanical engineering department at Tallinn Polytechnic Institute. Uuno and Milvi fell in love and got married the same fall. They started their life together in Tallinn where Uuno as a young promising specialist of electronics factory Volta was provided with a tiny one-room apartment in a new growing housing estate Mustamäe. Milvi started to teach Estonian language and literature in the secondary school near their home. They spent all their summers in Türi, a small town where Milvi’s parents lived. They loved to grow their own vegetables for the winter. They were active in skiing, spending most of their winter weekends near the hilly Otepää where Uuno was born.
In 1973 Uuno and Milvi became parents of a daughter and three years later of a son. In 1981 they had a chance to buy their first car – a soviet made Moskvitsh.
Uuno, Milvi and their children were very happy people.
Next to our collaboration “HAPPY PEOPLE” we exhibit also three jewellery collections shown previously in Tallinn in solo exhibitions:
Anneli Tammik “Linear”(exhibited in the Hop Gallery, Tallinn 2009)
Maria Valdma “Dust” (Exhibited in the A-Gallery, Tallinn 2009; and awarded as “The best annual exhibition of the A-gallery”)
Ketli Tiitsar “Homesickness” (Exhibited in the Hop Gallery, Tallinn 2008; awarded with the Ede Kurrel prize)
The exhibition is open daily from 13.00-18.00 until 8 August 2010 on the second floor of the Kärdla Power Station. Entrance from the Vabaduse Str.
PS! I had time to take photos only then when more then half of the people left from the opening. Therefore have a look here and much more pictures by Urmas Lauri from the opening here.