Andrus Joonas
Aledoia 55 or The Red House
| Artist: | Andrus Joonas (1970 - ) |
| Title: | Aledoia 55 or The Red House |
| Date: | 2002 |
| Technique: Material: |
mixed media |
| Description: | The word ‘aledoia' derives from mythology and was created by Andrus Joonas himself at first to refer to a series of flower paintings. The motifs, reminiscent of the pistils of flowers, have also been painted as windows of the “Red House". Inside the house there are paint-smeared walls, filthy petticoats, torn canvases and a mattress. This work is not to be viewed from the outside - it is for entering and being inside and requires an approach that is intuitive and emotional rather than rational. “The place you will find yourselves in greatly depends on yourself. The way you will associate with what you see is foremost tied to your experience in life, things you can identify yourself with, your domain of social communication, your impressionability and other things, so that there really is not a universal definition of Joonas' cabin. The protest against the dominating mythology of the GOOD WAY OF LIFE, has provided Joonas a personal cultural space that must be filled with aesthetics different from everything else and handled in a new way".* Anu Allas * Eha Komissarov, Press release for the exhibition Aledoia 55, or Red House. Vaal Gallery. 26.03. -17.04. 2002. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | KUMU Art Museum |
| Collection number: | FV 136 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49610 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1299673 |
| File info: |
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