“Afterglow” by Mare Saare

With the exhibition “AFTERGLOW” by Mare Saare the artist looks back on her creative path and brings works from 1979 to the Järvakandi Glass Museum, aiming to explore the influences and changes on her journey from her school years to her artistic life. 
Mare is known mainly for her fragile colored glass objects resembling flowers, but also for her extremely sensitive and almost imperceptible patterns and shapes engraved on black glass. The themes are usually philosophical, the observer of the abstract works of expression is left with room to form their own understandings, the titles of the works hint at the original reason for creation, but are still general enough.

Art historian Heili Sõrmus has written (Sirp 27. 03. 2015): “These works are as if alive and one feels that the artist has captured a second of the bubbling process. The artworks do not seem like something that is ready. It is as if the matter is rebelling from the time of the creation of the world – something that has the potential of everything that exists, a frightening inner vitality.”
Mare’s works often express the principle of wabi-sabi, where there is no beginning and end and the principle of timeless circulation, disappearance and new emergence, infinity, is important.

“Glass has innumerable faces, innumerable techniques, innumerable possibilities. To this day, I am fascinated by the capriciousness and demandingness of the material that has become my very own, as well as the unexpected occasions it surprises me with, time and again. Knowledge is not the only and final instrument when working with glass. I have learned to trust glass. I enjoy experimentation and spontaneity, followed by long work to achieve the desired result – grinding, etching, engraving, polishing. Having been a city girl all my life, I now spend my days in Saaremaa, where nature literally invades through doors and windows. I try to free my thoughts, even for a moment, from a world that is proving to be hostile, where people today are like butterflies in a storm, while glass is a means for me to define real situations and the current state.”

Mare Saare

The exhibition will remain open until April 15, 2026 

Contacts & additional information: 
Allan Kima, Järvakandi Glass Museum, 53 904 677, www.klaasimuuseum.ee
Mare Saare, curator, 56 917 079

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