Siim-Tanel Annus, starting to participate at exhibitions in
1976 as a young and talented 16-year-old, won the attention of the public
in the 80ies with professional, strong, suggestive performances, being
rich in figures and symbols. Being of the most versatile artists, Annus is
also recognised as the creator of graphic art and paintings in mixed
techniques. |
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The creative nature of Annus is in continuous search.
In his pieces he tries to touch indifference through himself with
extraordinary technical means. The artist\'s paintings are object-free
worlds, the motifs of which hint on being picked from the nature.
Mountains, rising as bodies with plane faces, the background of which is
the sky, perceptional places and objects that as being carried by
whirlwinds could stretch out in time and space, anywhere, mirage-like
colour and light solutions, varying from pure white to pitch
black... With all of this the artist tries to refer to the connection
of human senses with pre-historic experience, the subconcious heritage of
which might be even more real that the one that we can touch at the
moment. |
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While painting both on the canvas and cardboard, the
author\'s mixed technique plays its own role in the creation of Annus. The
artist experiments in his paintings with different materials and colours
and works more with fingers that with a brush. Surfaces of his paintings
are raised, forrows and lines that have been pressed and scratched into
them have been made by hand sweeps. The textures create the initial idea
of the painting that is visible in the form of a skeleton. Layers of paint
are added to the raised surface, reacting and joining differently with
each other - like enamel and acryl, bringing into the author\'s creation
unexpected accidental solutions. Such kind of technical casualty is of
great importance in the author\'s compositions. Still the technique has at
expressing of the artist\'s idea only the role of means. |
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In the exhibition that is opened at the Haus Gallery is
exposed the latest creation of Siim-Tanel Annus. An experiment, which was
started by the author last autumn. Majority of paintings are in mixed
technique, combining so the best traits of Annus as a painter and graphic
artist and acquainting the artist from a new angle that can be
characterised as fresh in searching.
For those, having followed the
creation of Annus, the current exhibition should offer pleasant surprises,
for exhibition visitor, who does not know him so well it should offer new
discoveries. |
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