Dedicated to my dear lost friends, the souls with whom I have a connection. Thanks to that, I also felt obligated and support in doing this exhibition. The support is invisible.
This exhibition is symbolic because of them, because according to legend, the boat takes the soul to the other shore.
Leida Ilo
The exhibition was chosen as the best Vault exhibition in A-Gallery in the year of 2013.
With the exhibition SHELTER 2415 grouping Urmas-Ott is engaging in development of men’s jewellery. The pieces are situated in a space specific room installation. The grouping is building a post-nuclear war shelter according to the post-apocalyptic world, which has been adapted as living quarters by the fictional survivors. Aesthetics of the displayed jewelry has been inspired by the question, what would the survivors of the apocalypse value and wear? What kind of changes would take place in the value system and psychology of people living in that world?
Grouping Urmas-Ott (Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste) was born out of creative collaboration of two young metal artist. As a medium in their creative activity they have used jewelry, blacksmithing, graphics, street art, performances and have created experimental musical shows with a group “Postinstrumentum”. In 2010 Urmas-Ott was awarded with Tavasti grant.
The exhibition was chosen as the best Vault exhibition in A-Gallery in the year of 2012.
It is a jewellery exhibition about the sea and sea stories.
Life is a journey. Thoughts, feelings, relationships, situations and longings move forward – this time by the sea. I don’t dream of a mighty ocean and powerful storms – I stand in a quiet bay and look at the water. Underwater worlds open up, an endless set of qualities and relationships. Quiet life enchants – on the surface of the water and in the depth. One or the other is visible, something can be perceived, many do not really know or can even guess. I watch beautifully flowing aquatic plants floating in the calm rhythm of the waves. However, the lush vegetation does not mean strong health for the bay – the bay is closing up.
“A drop in the sea” – it’s a non-existent size (“ah just a drop!” …), but once my bay is dry – and not a drop?
Everything is relative. The droplets become a whole, every detail is important.
The exhibition was supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
The exhibition was chosen as the best Vault exhibition in A-Gallery in the year of 2011.
Inonotus obliquus or chaga (cinder conk)
“It is a wood-rotting fungus parasitic on birch and other trees, that causes the tree’s trunk to break. The mushroom is brown and hard inside, and its platy fruitbody can be found under the bark, usually appearing after the host tree is completely dead. The mushroom is used as a remedy for cancer, gastritis and ulcers.”
I have always wondered how bad can develop into something good, or, in fact, be of avail to somebody. Is it inevitable, that the old needs to die to make way for the new? Is evil the compelling force? I don’t know, but these questions have puzzled me for a long time. With this jewellery I have tried to look for the answers. I am sure they give me just a half-truth, but in jewellery I have found an intersection that helps me to move on in my search.
Thanks to: Teet, Dénes, Berit, Ketli, Jukka
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
The exhibition was chosen as the best Vault exhibition in A-Gallery in the year of 2010.
in tacit agreement with myself
looking for my space
my wallpaper patterns
I put them together from the fragments of boredom and momentary passion
I want to close my memories somewhere where their figurative value would be preserved
so I am building my house
where things are
motionless and mute
which will never forget
despised and longed
I humbly trust them with my memories
tacit knowledge
so I am building my own house and burning it myself,
covering the universe with my life-experienced drawings
the world is just my imagination
one fiction
The exhibition was chosen as the best Vault exhibition in A-Gallery in the year of 2009.
The name of the exhibition LAURELS gives an idea of the wonderings and keywords by which these jewellery has been created and completed; ambition, achievements, image, illusions, possible harmony of human external and internal and also inconsistency.
At certain times of the year, the subject of reward medals has become very topical in our country, but the artist has approached the subject much more individual-centered, on a more personal level, touching the delicate boundaries of vanity and respect.
The exhibition was supported by SANGAR
The exhibition was chosen as the best Vault exhibition in A-Gallery in the year of 2007.
