Alice Kask
Two Pieces of Plywood
| Artist: | Alice Kask (1976 - ) |
| Title: | Two Pieces of Plywood |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Technique: Material: |
charcoal, lacquer plywood, metal details |
| Height (cm): | 129.3 |
| Width (cm): | 108.8 |
| Description: | “Painter Alice Kask stands out with her sensitivity, in a good sense of the word. She is probably the most mature painter to have graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1999. Alice's paintings are astonishingly accurate and professional and the themes of her works are astoundingly existentialist - life, pain, religion, past, eternity, soul… For this reason her paintings are not made in bright colours - that might seem too cheap. Alice mostly paints human figures and her manner allows her to create even more monumental works. At the same time Alice has a very good hand in drawing."* “Two Pieces of Plywood" could be called ‘art of the state of being'. There is no story behind the images, no movement or turning towards the viewer. The neutral title leaves the work open-ended in the same way as ‘untitled' or three X-s, but at the same time links it foremost with the material, something that existed before the depiction. The figures, drawn in charcoal on two half-burned plates of wood, seem more like shadows than actual people - there is no corporeal or carnal presence to them. They have been pressed inside a frame without any moving space, bodies doubled up, eyes looking at the ground, their backs to each other, withdrawn and distanced. The surface of the picture - robust-like with rusty metal details that appear as loose door hinges - is actually very delicate and the image seems like it might fall off if the piece was handled violently. Anu Allas * Heie Treier, 7 New Names. - Eesti Ekspress, 2000, 30 November. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7089 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47868 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 107.39MB Resolution: 5420*6924px @ 350dpi |
