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Collection highlights
Eve Kask emerged in the Estonian art scene in the 1980s with her expressive and erotic works. In analyzing Kask's artwork, Raoul Kurvitz emphasizes the intensive use of colour and of the iris effect, exceptional in Estonian art. He has also found Jungian mythicism and unconscious fears in her works. Art critic Vappu Vabar emphasizes the treatment of space in Kask's works: “The space of mummies and totems come together in a metaphysical entity."* The female totems are foremost alluringly beautiful, despite the archaic symbols of power (snake, wings, All Seeing Eye). With the mediation of the archetype of the goddess, the artist is studying the mechanisms of gender power-relations and creating equivalents to powerful instincts. Kask's work could also be seen as feminist art as she does not consider women as victim but as omnipotent goddesses.** Eve Kask is also a renown installation artist and the chairman of the Tallinn Print Triennial. Anne Untera * Vappu Vabar, Eve Kask - A Road to Perfection and Onwards. - Vikerkaar, 1989, 9, p. 32. ** Raoul Kurvitz, Minus the Third Floor Mistress. - Estonian Arists II, Center For Contemporary Art, Estonia, 2000, p. 37.

Eve Kask
Goddess XIII

 
Artist: Eve Kask (1958 - )
Title: Goddess XIII
Date: 1996
Technique:
Material:
linocut
paper
Height (cm): 65.0
Width (cm): 95.3
Description: Eve Kask emerged in the Estonian art scene in the 1980s with her expressive and erotic works. In analyzing Kask's artwork, Raoul Kurvitz emphasizes the intensive use of colour and of the iris effect, exceptional in Estonian art. He has also found Jungian mythicism and unconscious fears in her works. Art critic Vappu Vabar emphasizes the treatment of space in Kask's works: “The space of mummies and totems come together in a metaphysical entity."* The female totems are foremost alluringly beautiful, despite the archaic symbols of power (snake, wings, All Seeing Eye). With the mediation of the archetype of the goddess, the artist is studying the mechanisms of gender power-relations and creating equivalents to powerful instincts. Kask's work could also be seen as feminist art as she does not consider women as victim but as omnipotent goddesses.** Eve Kask is also a renown installation artist and the chairman of the Tallinn Print Triennial.
Anne Untera

* Vappu Vabar, Eve Kask - A Road to Perfection and Onwards. - Vikerkaar, 1989, 9, p. 32.
** Raoul Kurvitz, Minus the Third Floor Mistress. - Estonian Arists II, Center For Contemporary Art, Estonia, 2000, p. 37.
Related categories: Contemporary Art
Copyright notice: Art Museum of Estonia
AME collection: Prints and drawings collection
Collection number: G 27610
Accretion number: EKM j 45672
Muis reference http://muis.ee/museaalView/1500049
File info: Source type: slide 6x6/7/9
File type: TIF
File size: 38.26MB
Resolution: 3956*3042px @ 2000dpi
 
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