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Printmaking from Soviet Estonia
16 Jul 2007
EXHIBITION
On view through Jul 29, 2007
The Baltic republic of Estonia enjoys a long tradition of printmaking. Under Soviet rule, authorities mainly concentrated on censoring two art forms to ensure that creative work adhered to dictated norms: painting and the written novel. During the Cold War, graphic artists in the Estonia thus enjoyed a degree of creative freedom.
The people of this republic struggled to retain their individual artistic heritages under the pressures of Soviet power and its officially sanctioned art of Socialist Realism. Expression of individual national identity, such as the depiction of Estonian flags, was forbidden by official policy. The graphic print, however, with its low visibility to censors, gave expression to a vast array of nonconformist subjects drawn from the distinctive cultures of the Baltics.
The proximity of Europe, Finland in particular, provided Estonian artists with an access to the west that was less available to their counterparts in Moscow. Easily combined with the ideologically lax culture of printmaking, this relationship allowed artists an exchange with contemporary trends in art beyond the Iron Curtain - an exchange restricted by the regime in the rest of the USSR. Artists engaged Western Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art on an international level unique to the Baltics.
On view through Jul 29, 2007
The Baltic republic of Estonia enjoys a long tradition of printmaking. Under Soviet rule, authorities mainly concentrated on censoring two art forms to ensure that creative work adhered to dictated norms: painting and the written novel. During the Cold War, graphic artists in the Estonia thus enjoyed a degree of creative freedom.
The people of this republic struggled to retain their individual artistic heritages under the pressures of Soviet power and its officially sanctioned art of Socialist Realism. Expression of individual national identity, such as the depiction of Estonian flags, was forbidden by official policy. The graphic print, however, with its low visibility to censors, gave expression to a vast array of nonconformist subjects drawn from the distinctive cultures of the Baltics.
The proximity of Europe, Finland in particular, provided Estonian artists with an access to the west that was less available to their counterparts in Moscow. Easily combined with the ideologically lax culture of printmaking, this relationship allowed artists an exchange with contemporary trends in art beyond the Iron Curtain - an exchange restricted by the regime in the rest of the USSR. Artists engaged Western Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art on an international level unique to the Baltics.
Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place
16 Jul 2007
EXHIBITION
From July, 2007 - August 26, 2007
Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place includes nationally and internationally known sculptors who have created monumental works to be installed both inside the museum and outside on Boyd Plaza in a thought-provoking and playful exhibition.
These 26 sculptures, some enormous in size, are composed of surprising materials such as poured fiberglass, polyethylene, aluminum chain-link steel and wheat grass, and they are appearing in unusual spaces in and around the museum. Featured artists are Michele Brody, Kendall Buster, Ming Fay, Donald Lipski, Dennis Oppenheim, Roxy Paine, Wendy Ross, John Ruppert, Ursula van Rydingsvard, Valeska Soares and James Surls.
The artists are well known for their avant-garde approaches, and Material Terrain addresses provocative questions such as genetic engineering and modification of species, conservation, farming and logging. From giant pumpkins and deer light fixtures to grass skirts and concrete trees, the exhibition is visually engaging and should appeal to everyone from children to adults.
From July, 2007 - August 26, 2007
Material Terrain: A Sculptural Exploration of Landscape and Place includes nationally and internationally known sculptors who have created monumental works to be installed both inside the museum and outside on Boyd Plaza in a thought-provoking and playful exhibition.
These 26 sculptures, some enormous in size, are composed of surprising materials such as poured fiberglass, polyethylene, aluminum chain-link steel and wheat grass, and they are appearing in unusual spaces in and around the museum. Featured artists are Michele Brody, Kendall Buster, Ming Fay, Donald Lipski, Dennis Oppenheim, Roxy Paine, Wendy Ross, John Ruppert, Ursula van Rydingsvard, Valeska Soares and James Surls.
The artists are well known for their avant-garde approaches, and Material Terrain addresses provocative questions such as genetic engineering and modification of species, conservation, farming and logging. From giant pumpkins and deer light fixtures to grass skirts and concrete trees, the exhibition is visually engaging and should appeal to everyone from children to adults.