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: |
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