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Jaan Elken’s personal exhibition ON_OFF will be open in Draakon gallery from Tuesday, March 8, 2022. Exhibition will be open until April 2, 2022.<\/p>\n

Jaan Elken: \u201cAs an artist, I create worlds that claim to be a visual whole and which intellectually charged coordinates have influenced me in one or another way. The architectonics of metaphorical landscapes has been inspired both by collapsing glaciers and rocky deserts (\u201cSnow Line of the Atlas Mountains\u201d, \u201cTurquoise and Ice\u201d), also by the ruin ensembles of exotic cultures as well as sign systems (\u201cNorthern Africa, revisited\u201d, \u201cMorocco\u201d). Aesthetics that poeticizes degradation as well as observes the intersection between the inside and the outside has become less important now; I rather see a million opportunities next to the territories engaged by mass tourism and kitsch industry to map the reality according to my own rules. In 2020\u20132022 there were no travels to be accumulated into my artwork; however, it lies in the power of a painter to create strong simulations. It is a true physical feeling how the power of the art of painting can be found in emotional high-voltage \u2013 I seem to be in trance while sketching the unknown and\/or something that lies ahead.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n


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