Until 6.09.2010. Find out more abut him here.

Will be open until 7.9.2010.

I am finally back in Tallinn from Hiiumaa.

The exhibition is over and here are some picutres from the day of cafés which is annually organised in Kärdla city as a popular event for the local people as well as huge tourist attraction. Most of the cafés are organised by local people in their cosy backyards, some collect money for charity etc.

We participated in the programme in order to promote our exhibition” HAPPY PEOPLE” and also to balance some of the costs we had as extras in the exhibition budget. We were told that 1000 people will visit our café, we did not believe. But they all came… For about 4pm we ran out of all the delicious food in our tiny kiosk. We had a special guest Kaie Mei- food professional who helped us with the menue. Very, very delicious cookies by the way!

In the end of the day we were told by our exhibition guard, that more then 900 people visited our exhibition!!!

Lots of positive reactions and confusion too.  After all it was one very exhausting but also very positive experience!

Here is a selection of  the pieces we did together with Anneli Tammik and Maria Valdma. They are installed into the former director office of the power station. On the central wall you can see the diagram of electricity net of the entire Hiiumaa(second biggest island in Estonia).

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.

We (Anneli Tammik, Maria Valdma and I) are going to present our jewellery exhibition HAPPY PEOPLE in the Estonian second biggest island Hiiumaa. The venue is the office space of the Kärdla’s power station(2nd floor). Beautiful and very authentic, including the director office. We are going to show both the new work we made together and also our independent work. You all are welcome to the opening at 26th of July at 19.00 or to visit the show until 8th of August. Opening hours 13-18.00. If any of you will get to the island on 7th of August, we will participate in the programme of the 15 One-day Cafés in Kärdla. We will have our own kiosk-café in the outdoor pavilion of the power station, you will be surprised!

Xochimilco – today it is the only part of Mexico City still to have the canals and semi-floating flower and vegetable gardens. Popular place to spend the weekend with your family on one of the rented punts, which have a roof and a table down the middle.

On the first pictures there are children toys found from the canals and nailed to the trees. There was one man who collected them this way, which reminds me Polish contemporary art exhibition I saw in Tallinn Art Hall twenty years ago, although the installation was kind of spooky I was deeply impressed.

As July is endless birthday-season in our family, then in between of arranging parties I will post about Mexico City.