1. Kristen Rästas “Somewhere Over the Rainbow II”

Kristen Rästas “Somewhere Over the Rainbow II”

08.11.2021

On Saturday, 13 November Kristen Rästas will open his solo exhibition “Somewhere Over the Rainbow II” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.
 
The exhibition is a continuation of a solo project with the same title. Their unifying theme is the “breaking of the fourth wall” through the amplification of the technical structures of the artworks and by demystifying art as an exhibit. Sculptural and painterly artworks and ready-made objects mimic natural elements and artificially created environments. They call into question how precisely can we perceive the world itself, when in reality we are merely exposed to unambiguous conventions and visual language that only describe the characteristics of the world.
 
The video included in the exhibition functions as a visual letter to the artist’s future self.  It was created amidst the ongoing climate crisis during the first months of the global pandemic. The visuals depict a new unimaginable environment where the physical world has been replaced by shattered digital imagery with glitches and distortions, fantasies and memories of what the world could have been. The narrative presents simple thoughts of daily presence that in their inattentiveness are overshadowed by a deepening sense of a possible end of the world. 
 
Kristen Rästas (b 1992) is an Estonian artist living and working in Berlin and in Tallinn. He has a master’s degree from the Estonian Academy of Arts, supplementing his studies at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in Budapest and in Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), School of Arts in Gent, Belgium. His works have been shown in Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, Iceland and Belgium. Rästas is one of the artists working under the pseudonym Robin Ellis Meta and he is the co-founder of the online gallery post-gallery.online.
 
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and it is open until 12 December.
 
Additional information:
Tanel Asmer
Tartu Art House producer
Tel: +372 5562 1192
E-post: produtsent@kunstimaja.ee
 
Tartu Art House
Vanemuise 26, 51014 Tartu
Wed–Mon 12.00–18.00
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Kristen Rästas “Somewhere Over the Rainbow II”
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