{"id":31682,"date":"2020-02-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/lovers-15-02-2020-14-03-2020\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T10:38:45","slug":"lovers-15-02-2020-14-03-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/lovers-15-02-2020-14-03-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVERS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vaida Suits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Vaida Suits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mart Keki\u0161ev, Kairin Koovit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Liina Lelov, Valdek Laur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adolfas \u0160aulys, Mari Relo-\u0160aulys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Adolfas \u0160aulys, Mari Relo-\u0160aulys<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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They know themselves, move in parallel, bubble into pink slime and keep on going.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

LOVERS are<\/span> Vaida Suits<\/span>, Mart Keki\u0161ev + Kairin Koovit<\/span>, Liina Lelov + Valdek Laur<\/span>, Adolfas \u0160aulys + Mari Relo-\u0160aulys<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FROM TIME TO TIME<\/strong>
Vaida Suits<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vaida Suits<\/strong> (b. 1931) is an Estonian metal artist, whose dynamic work is characterised by a labour-intensive process, Art Nouveau forms and extremely fine skills in traditional techniques. Still, her signature style is always clearly defined and even laconic. Suits was the only woman working at the ARS Art Products Factory in steel engraving and later as a designer, creating both unique series as well as extensive commissions for institutions in Estonia and elsewhere in Soviet Union. Working as a jewellery designer at the Tallinn Fashion House her work was well received also in fashion shows in London, an extraordinary achievement for a designer from the Soviet Union. Praised for her impeccable work ethic and an original style, Suits has taken part in exhibitions from the Balkans to Norway and from Italy to Mongolia. Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art in Moscow and the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a tribute to Vaida Suits’ creative life of more than half a century, A-Gallery is displaying in its two windows rings, bracelets, necklaces and objects created from the 1960s onwards. There are examples of filigree, embossment, and engraving, as well as compositions of various materials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TOGETHER<\/strong>
Mart Keki\u0161ev, Kairin Koovit<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The material is composed of two elements, joined together and moving in unison, exploring boundaries between two people and possibilities for togetherness<\/span>.<\/span> The works are made of Damascus steel and in the mokume-gane technique.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mart Keki\u0161ev studied at the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts. For the last ten years he has worked as a freelance metal artist. For the past five years Keki\u0161ev has worked as a blacksmithing teacher in a vocational school. Last autumn he began his Master’s studies at the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kairin Koovit studied at the Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She has participated in exhibitions both in Estonia and internationally. Koovit has been an intern at Peter de Wit’s and Margareth Sandstr\u00f6m’s studio. In 2011 she received the Roman Tavast Young Jewellery Artist Stipend and since 2012 works as artist and designer at Roman Tavast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#ROOSAMULL<\/strong> @ROOSAILA<\/a><\/span>

We like #roosaila #roosal\u00f6ga #pinkslime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pink bubble oozes both pink spittle and pink slime \u2013 everything that is kind-hearted, tolerant and happy. Pink spittle has always existed, but only found its material form in May last year, when it became necessary to remind people that there is nothing wrong with living in a pink bubble. And so, the meaning of this derogatory term was flipped and converted into something positive and joyful.<\/span>\r\n\r\nBy now pink spittle has found its way to Sweden, Tunisia and the US, been part of countless protests, conferences, events, and been pinned onto the chests of many prominent suspicious elements.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The window exhibition at A-Gallery concludes the material journey of pink spittle. These are the last of spittles and slimes that ooze into the real world from the pink bubble. It is only appropriate that the symbol’s final presentation takes place in the only art jewellery gallery in Estonia. Very soon, everything goes back to normal again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pink spittle is created by jewellery artist Liina Lelov and Valdek Laur, a student at Department of Jewellery and Blacksmithing at the Estonian Academy of Arts.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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LIFE 100
Mari Relo-\u0160aulys, Adolfas \u0160aulys<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Our good friends noted a few days ago that, our ages combined, we are now 100 years old.<\/span>\r\n\r\nA+M=100<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibition highlights two significant traits of our joint work. One is exemplified by the socially critical exhibition \u201cViva la Vida!\u201d (2005), part of our home pharmacies series, and the other by “Kaks \u00f5una” (Two Apples, 2020), commenting on the show “ELU 100″ (LIFE 100), and continuing the tradition of gilding everyday objects”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The artists\u2019 first larger joint exhibition \u201eViva la Vida!\u201c (2005, A-Gallery, currently Hop) focused on the high number of pharmacies in the city. The artists asked if it is better or even safer to live in a city, where galleries, theatres, cinemas and small businesses are replaced by pharmacies. Does the hope of immortality and taking right pills to alleviate lesser or worse ills makes us happier?” \u2013 Ketli Tiitsar<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mari Relo \u0160aulys and Adolfas \u0160aulys are Estonian jewellery artists, whose remarkable joint work has been well received both in Estonia and internationally. They have had 15 joint exhibitions and have together received the Ede Kurrel Prize from the Association of Metal Artists of Estonia in 2005, the Annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Endowment in 2010, and A-Gallery’s Vault Room Exhibition Prize in 2015. In 2002 they won the competition “Amber in Interiors” organised by the gallery of the Palanga Amber Museum.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They know themselves, move in parallel, bubble into pink slime and keep on going. LOVERS are Vaida Suits, Mart Keki\u0161ev + Kairin Koovit, Liina Lelov + Valdek Laur, Adolfas \u0160aulys + Mari Relo-\u0160aulys FROM TIME TO TIMEVaida Suits Vaida Suits (b. 1931) is an Estonian metal artist, whose dynamic work is characterised by a labour-intensive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":30729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[230,275,335,339,292,337,333,1628],"class_list":["post-31682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-naitused","tag-adolfas-saulys-en","tag-aknanaitus","tag-kairin-koovit-en","tag-liina-lelov-en","tag-mari-relo-saulys-en","tag-mart-kekisev-en","tag-vaida-suits-en","tag-valdek-laur-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agalerii.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}