Erki Kasemets
Perpetuation
| Artist: | Erki Kasemets (1969 - ) |
| Title: | Perpetuation |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Technique: Material: |
mixed media cans, wood |
| Height (cm): | 205.0 |
| Width (cm): | 145.0 |
| Description: | In 2002 the artist won the Konrad Mägi award for his turn towards painting in his lifelong work ‘Life-file' that defines painting as a work in progress. Erki Kasemets is one of the most consistent representatives of trash art in Estonia. His materials are standard cans, empty milk cartons and packs of cigarettes, matchboxes and other domestic rubbish. In collecting, ordering, painting them over and arranging them into paintings, assemblages and installations in different patterns, he sees an opportunity to materialise different moments of time. In the lower right corner of the can-painting “Perpetuation" that depicts a lit city view, the time 13:45 marks a lost moment that has been provided a chance of a new life through artistic production. His ‘time-specific' works form part of a larger system: a life-file that is supplemented throughout life and in which every small unit has a value equal to the whole. Erki Kasemets is a data collector similar to an archivist. To Kasemets, art is primarily a process in which the presentation of objects is not a priority. Nonetheless, in an interview he once admitted that in his heart he hopes that this routine of repetition will provide an enlightenment. Kädi Talvoja |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 6991 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 45813 |
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