Erki Kasemets
Recycling of Time III. Detail
| Artist: | Erki Kasemets (1969 - ) |
| Title: | Recycling of Time III. Detail |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil, mixed media ready-mades, cans, wood |
| Height (cm): | 295.0 |
| Width (cm): | 100.0 |
| Description: | Collecting preserved moments seems to be Kasemets' true passion. Every once in a while in his can-paintings we can see electronic scoreboards that show times, dates as well as other numbers that seem random to the viewer and the meaning of which remains unexplained. Through packages that are dated and painted over, the artist is able to capture time and recycle it. His works are not static or eternal. The modular world is constantly changing its form; the material cycles from one work to another. The recycled painting “Recycling of Time", formed by cans put together in a style of a pattern painting, was produced in 1996 for an exhibition carrying the same title. Since then the different parts of the work have been living a life of their own, reborn in different paintings and installations. Kasemets describes the system of creating modular pictures of cans as “Can Net or Can't". The circulation of information within the net is constantly formed into new images. Scoreboards marking different times and years appear on the belt patterns of “Recycling of Time". The combinations referring to the past and the future occur in the same picture thus allowing the co-existence of moments that are accidental, but consist of the same source material. Kädi Talvoja |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 6990 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 45741 |
| File info: |
Source type: slide 6x6/7/9 File type: TIF File size: 31.90MB Resolution: 2766*4027px @ 72dpi |
