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Another life

Is there another life and what is it about? Is it about changes in life, hoping for life after death, giving things a new life? Water and plants are inseparable from each other. Without water, a tree will become wood. At the current exhibition I have presented maple, apple and pear tree wood from my home garden – all the trees that have been cut down during my lifetime and the taste of their fruit are still in my mind. While modelling the wood I have attempted to reanimate them in the form of jewellery. Water that gave life to wood has been given “another life” in silver.

​Photo: H. Tensing

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2017 parim Seifinäitus

11. jaanuaril kuulutati A-Galeriis välja 2017. aasta Parim Seifinäitus, milleks osutus Kertu Vellerinna näitus FACEBOOK/NÄORAAMAT.  

A-Galerii on professionaalsete metallikunstnike loomingut esindav ehtegalerii, mille tegevuste hulka kuulub ka ajaloolises seifis näituste korraldamine. A-Galerii algatas 2007. aastal Parima Seifinäituse preemia eesmärgiga tunnustada loominguga aktiivselt tegelevaid kolleege. Sellest ajast on traditsioon mööduvat aastat kokkuvõtval peol valida ja välja kuulutada aasta parim seifinäitus ning anda üle preemia.  

2017. aasta Parima Seifinäituse preemia saanud ehtekunstnik Kertu Vellerind kirjeldab oma näituse sisu tabavalt luulevormis:   NÄORAAMAT/FACEBOOK (Mida mina, kellel FB konto puudub, sellest arvan)   ÜKS VEEBIPÕHINE ÜÜRATU VÕRGUSTIK – MINU JAOKS TÄIESTI TUNDMATU KÕRGUSTIK ENDAST FOTOSID PILDISTA, SILDISTA RIPUTA, RAPUTA PASSIIVSELT – AKTIIVSELT ELU JAGA JA SEGA SHEERI VÕI KOMMENTEERI HUVILÄHTUVALT GRUPEERI LIIDA VÕI LAHUTA KOOSELUSID NAHUTA ELA KAASA JA LAIGI KUNI SÜDAMES LÄIGIB OHTRALT SÕPRU SAAD LISADA VÕI SÕNUMEIS KISADA, ET: „SIHIPÄRATULT AEGA MINA EI KULUTA!   Näituse kujundas Tea Tammelaan.   Kertu Vellerind (s 1967 Tallinnas): „EKA metallehistöö kateedris veetsin kokku üheksa aastat – sinna mahtus nii bakalaureuse- kui ka magistrikraad, täiendõpe Lahti Disainiinstituudis Soomes 1992 ja Maini-äärse Hanau Joonestusakadeemias Saksamaal 1993, üks aasta akadeemilist puhkust ning kolm toredat suve ERKI Soome-Ugri ekspeditsiooni liikmena 1990–1992. Vabakutselise ehtekunstnikuna töötan aastast 1995, aasta hiljem astusin EKL-i liikmeks.

Näitustest olen osa võtnud omajagu nii Eestis kui ka väljaspool. 2016. aastast olen Ede Kurreli nimelise aastapreemia laureaat.“

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The Vault Room exhibitions 2018

A-gallery represents Estonian professional jewellery art and offers artists free exhibition space in gallery’s Vault Room as well as possibility to sell jewellery in main hall.
Vault Room is an exhibition space consisting of 5,2 square meters in the heart of the gallery where jewellery artists of various age and nationality have introduced their work since 2005. Exposition changes once in four weeks that makes about 13 exhibitions a year. The general purpose of the exhibitions held in Vault Room is to introduce both classic jewellery art and fresh ideas as well as new approaches to art jewellery.
Vault Room exhibitions in 2018:

1. 19.01.–19.02. Harry Tensing
2. 23.02.–26.03. Kadi Kübarsepp
3. 30.03.–30.04. Ivar Kaasik
4. 04.05.–04.06. Pilvi Tammoja
5. 08.06.–09.07. Hanna Ryynanen
6. 13.07.–13.08. Sanna Nuutinen, Kaisa Vuorinen
7. 17.08.–17.09. Dot Melanin & Dana Seachuga
8. 21.09.–22.10. Erle Nemvalts
9. 26.10.–26.11. Raili Vinn
10. 30.11.–31.12. Marita Lumi
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ICE – SUFFICE

The central theme of the current exhibition is the Estonian homonym “jää” (“ice”). Ideas are wandering to the unknown just like moving along fragile ice through which transparent messages are being revealed.

– The thinner the ICE, the bigger the will to learn if it will endure the human weight
– The present moment is the time that will be never SUFFICE.

“In my work, I record moments, findings, vanishing elements, symbols, words, touches … into the fragile ice / resin while trying to create unique memories, pieces of jewellery and miniature sculpture. I experiment with material while uniting precious metals, pieces of feathers, crystals, seeds, plants, stones, fossils, horsehair, transparent resin that imitates ice. A unique tension but also harmony and balance will arise between various materials. I try to include both happiness and sadness, moments of bitterness, hours borrowed from tomorrow in my work; a new output is being born in a lifeless transparent material. Vanishing traces, signs and words are revived in exhibition pieces and enter into a dialogue with the audience. Through my artwork I contemplate on the situation of both eternity and present moment. Moments must be cherished the same way as precious metals; thus, the piece of jewellery that one wears every day is the biggest treasure. You are the one creating value. Oscar Wilde has stated that nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. A ring or a bracelet made out of familiar birch bark may acquire special meaning. My purpose is to awake emotions, values and conversation in people.
A human being is vain by nature – wearing jewellery gives us possibility to carry stories, thoughts, pieces of our past with us – all this give birth to new stories and impulses.
Already the ancient peoples have dressed up and decorated themselves that has given them unbelievable power. I also invite the guests of the exhibition to take a look at the past, the future and the vanishing things surrounding us – maybe these will be revived in some way and this will become a form of communication with the closed ones.
The vanishing ICE in the Arctic is a worrying fact that is changing geography, fauna and flora. Sometimes it seems that I attempt to record the last traces of things such as the ripe flower bud of a thistle or the white lightweight parts of feathers floating in the air. Let us catch the moments …
With the present exhibition I am therefore drawing the viewers’ attention to global issues such as climate change: melting of ICE and raising temperatures – how this will influence nature, currents of air, winds? There are more questions than answers at the moment. Changes have been enormous; but if we will raise our consciousness then perhaps we might move to the right direction with our actions.
And lastly: the one who changes with time will never become obsolete – even the fragile ice will carry them.

There must be ICE. No ICE will not SUFFICE …