5 – 29 VI 2018,\u00a0E.Vilde muuseum \/ Kastellaanimaja galerii<\/p>\n
With this exhibition, Jaan Elken conitnues his so-called ‘open landscape’ series, a period that can be traced back to the exhibition\u00a0“It has been written” (2012)<\/a>\u00a0in Tallinna Linnagalerii, as well as “Strawberry fields<\/a>” (2013) and “It has been written II” (2017) in Vabaduse galerii. Elkens work here is a form of landscape archetypes,\u00a0sometimes autobiographical, sometimes representing a more universal experience. The white-gray rainbows reminiscent of something lost or yet to come, something the artist has described with the song lyrics “Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue…”<\/p>\n With these new paintings, Elken shows a firm handed purposefulness which is in dramatic contrast with his characteristic abstract expressionist brush work. As a result, the matter on the canvases has a structural and energetic character. The synthesis between Elkens own earlier hyperrealist period and the sense of space, and the stipulated abstract cityspaces places his new work in the context of art that draws its energy from urban cognition where inspiration is drawn from the fluidum of wastelands or city hearts filled with symbols.<\/p>\n Download the exhibition poster here (pdf)<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n