CHANGING AND UNCHANGEABLE

Estonian Modern Painting 2016

April 1 - May 22, 2016

The grand old of Estonian painting has not deemed it necessary to relate to every wind of change reaching us from the metropolises.

The transformation of the means of expression in the work of the artists is rather a steady, slow and continuous process, and noticeable only to the professionals familiar with the specifics of the field and the art audience fond of painting. The current exhibition brings together as different practices and generations of artists as possible, creating an intensive landscape of painting on the principle of contrast or identification.

The exhibition also includes the artists who, painting on a project basis, bring new viewpoints to the art of painting. Since 1970s, the trend of showing paintings as part of installations and/or on different surfaces than usual - works on walls/film, large format works on paper, painting in symbiosis with video and light art projections, etc., is noticeable in the customs of showcasing the art of painting.

For the sake of the mental health of the field, the ability to change, transform, integrate new approaches as well as maintain last values - let us call them "unchangeable" here - is equally important.

In addition to the members of the Estonian Painters' Association, the painting students of the Estonian Academy of Art, Chair of Painting of the University of Tartu, and Tartu Art College have been invited to participate in the exhibition.