On Friday, 7 March at 5 p.m., Kairi Orgusaar will open her solo exhibition “Recipe for Harmony” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.
“Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it.”
/ Andrei Tarkovsky /
In the exhibition, the artist is trying to find the recipe for harmony. For this purpose, she developed a world made up of fantastic creatures, swinging in beams of light, casting shadows and reflections. The sculptural glass forms and installations become delicate, even poetic, reflections as light is added. Forms melt and morph, and colours glimmer and interact.
“These entities in the exhibition have but one language to express their emotions: that of colours. Joy, pain or arousal get projected as hues and shades of their skin. Since glass is the medium giving them form, they’re partially transparent, seemingly immaterial and submerged in water, as if they’ve been transported from some lost continent, such as Lemuria,” the artist explains.
Kairi Orgusaar (b. 1969) graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts, specialising in painting, and has a master’s degree in glass art. She’s been participating in exhibitions in Estonia and abroad since 1996. She’s a triple laureate of the Estonian Cultural Endowment’s regional award. Her works can be found in the Ernsting Stiftung Alter of the Herding collection in Germany, in the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, and in private collections. In 2004, she founded her studio, OÜ Kunivorm, and is the founder and since 2010 has been a board member of the Rapla County Centre for Contemporary Art.
Exhibition design and graphic design: Kati Kerstna
Thanks: Merle Kannus, Herbert Orgusaar and Tiina Kõrtsini
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Cultural Endowment of the Raplamaa Expert Group.
The exhibition will be open until 6 April.
Additional information: Maret Tamme, Producer of the Tartu Art House, produtsent@kunstimaja.ee, 5800 3882