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Haus Gallery 15.09.2022-07.10.2022

MARE VINT

Elements, Lines, Landscapes, Thoughts - Mare Vint throughout her creations

Minimalist landscapes with architectural elements, circular and rectangular shapes, lines that move across the surface of the paper, inviting the viewer’s eye to draw along with them – these are the visual keywords of the work of Mare Vint, who has now passed away. The exhibition at the Haus Gallery, which spans two floors, is dedicated to Mare’s memory on the month of her birthday in September. Both familiar works and those that invite us to listen to the more unique voices of Mare’s work are on display.

The artist’s unique early drawings from the late 1960s and early 1970s already show Mare as both a conceptualist and a playful stylist of subject matter.  Drawing, alongside graphic arts, runs through Mare Vint’s work. She loved to colourise her lithographs, transforming each black and white structure into an individual and unique colour space. Combining colour pencil with graphics is a speciality of Mare. She continued to draw with conviction in the final years of her oeuvre, producing experimental compositions on canvas, both in crayon and ink, subtly and vividly suggestive of the world of Vint. Canvas, the usual base material for oil paintings, became for Mare a land of new play possibilities, which she sincerely enjoyed. A series of Mare’s canvas drawings are on display at the Haus Gallery exhibition.

Sensitive, experimental, in-depth and precise, and exceptionally recognisable, Mare Vint is undeniably one of the most important graphic artists in Estonian art. She entered the local art scene with an avant-garde group of artists from the 1960s and 1970s, including Mare’s life partners Tõnis Vint and later Andres Tolts.  In their own way, Mare’s work carries the creative traits and influences of both as the result of a combined energy. The exhibition features silent dialogues between Mare and Tõnis as well as between Mare and Andres.

Tõnis Vint played an important and influential role in Mare’s life and work.  Tõnis Vint was regarded as an intellectual leader of the art scene at the time and an interpreter of the universe of signifiers of different cultures, both European and Asian. He was a cosmopolitan and a mentor to many. The shared home of Mare and Tõnis, like their work, bore the hallmarks and language of a world purged of excess and was a work of interior architecture in its own right – the young artists’ statement on life.

Mare Vint and Andres Tolts, however, were inseparable in their maturity and experience. Seen from the outside, it could be said that they shared each of the joys of their life together with an admirable love, care, and restraint, just as the juxtaposed works in their exhibition intertwine elements of each other, depicting shared freedoms and structures.

The exhibition remembering Mare Vint is far from being a glimpse into the past. The timeless nature of her work presents its own messages in the present as it once presented them or will do so in the future. Perhaps the immaculate spaces of her orderly thoughts remind us to focus, to let go of excess things, and to see the important, or the priority. Every work by Mare Vint is a collection of elements focused on a single moment. A gaze that looks closely at a tower on a landscape line or tree line on the horizon, or at the air above the sea.  The world outside the artist’s focus, on the other hand, is notionally white, as if an insignificant volume in the picture, but whose function is to compose the pleasing rhythms of the surface of the work. Mare Vint’s perspectives on the reality that surrounds her offer endless possibilities for interpreting similar and particular details, which she shares with her audience, guiding them to notice the important in often unnoticed places of meaning.

Curator Piia Ausman

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Self-Portrait
Mare Vint Self-Portrait 1960s. Tempera km 61 x 43 cm (framed)
(sold)North Estonia Landscape
Mare Vint North Estonia Landscape 1982. Litography km 35.7 x 35 cm (framed) price 950
(sold)Field
Mare Vint Field 1969. Indian ink km 36.5 x 36 cm (framed) price 2 400
(sold)Greenish cloud
Mare Vint Greenish cloud 2013. Colored pencil lm 70 x 70 cm (framed) price 2 000
Pink
Mare Vint Pink 1968. Indian ink km 34 x 32 cm (framed) price 2 100
(sold)Pinkish cloud
Mare Vint Pinkish cloud 2013. Colored pencil lm 70 x 70 cm (framed) price 2 400
(sold)Island Landscape
Mare Vint Island Landscape 1984. Litography km 40 x 39 cm (framed) price 900
(sold)Island Landscape
Mare Vint Island Landscape 1984. Litography km 39.2 x 39 cm (framed) price 900
(sold)Autumn park
Mare Vint Autumn park 2013. Colored pencil km 70 x 70 cm (framed) price 2 400
A Gust of Wind
Mare Vint A Gust of Wind 1967. Ink, paber km 20 x 19.5 cm (framed) price 1 800
White Cities I
Mare Vint White Cities I 2017. Colored pencil, canvas 100 x 70 cm (not framed)
White Cities III
Mare Vint White Cities III 2016. Colored pencil, canvas 100 x 70 cm (not framed)
White Cities V
Mare Vint White Cities V 2019. Colored pencil on canvas 100 x 70 cm (not framed)
Table IV
Andres Tolts Table IV 2006. Oli, acrylic, canvas 115 x 115 cm (not framed) price 8 300
Selected Views IV
Mare Vint Selected Views IV 2003. Colored pencil, paper 62 x 62 cm (framed)
(sold)Venice
Mare Vint Venice 1987. Litography km 39.5 x 39 cm (framed) price 950
(sold)North Estonia Landscape
Mare Vint North Estonia Landscape 1982. Litography km 35.7 x 35 cm (framed) price 950
Souvenir
Mare Vint Souvenir 1967. Ink, paper Lm 34.2 x 31.8 cm (framed) price 2 000
(sold)Cities of the Past III
Mare Vint Cities of the Past III 2007. Serigraphy Km 63 x 63.2 cm (framed) price 2 600
Light cloud I
Mare Vint Light cloud I 1999. Colored pencil km 61.5 x 61.5 cm (framed)
Light blue
Mare Vint Light blue 1968. Indian ink km 34 x 31.5 cm (framed) price 2 100
Above the Lake I
Mare Vint Above the Lake I 1995. Colored pencil, paper 40.7 x 41 cm (framed)
Above the Lake
Mare Vint Above the Lake 1995. Colored pencil, paper km 41.2 x 41 cm (framed)
Contours and silhouettes III
Mare Vint Contours and silhouettes III 1989. Lithography, paper km 47 x 47 cm (framed) price 950
Contours and silhouettes IV
Mare Vint Contours and silhouettes IV 1989. Lithography, paper km 47.5 x ? cm (framed) price 950
Fir trees and blue sky
Mare Vint Fir trees and blue sky 2013. Colored pencil km 70 x 70 cm (framed) price 2 400
Movement
Mare Vint Movement 1966. Ink, paber km 22 x 21.5 cm (framed) price 1 800
Split circles Vi
Mare Vint Split circles Vi 1992. Colored lithography km 48 x 48 cm (framed)
(sold)Between Land and Sky I C
Mare Vint Between Land and Sky I C 1995. Colored lithograph Lm 61 x 61.2 cm (framed) price 1 300
Landscape with black oval
Mare Vint Landscape with black oval 1960s. Indian ink km 33 x 31.5 cm (framed) price 2 700
(sold)Seaside park
Mare Vint Seaside park 2013. Colored pencil km 70 x 70 cm (framed) price 2 340
Sea II
Mare Vint Sea II 2000. Colored pencil, paper 62 x 62 cm (framed)
Cities of the Past
Mare Vint Cities of the Past 2007. Serigraphy, paper km 62.5 x 62.5 cm (framed)
Cities of the Past
Mare Vint Cities of the Past 2007. Serigraphy, paper km 62.5 x 62.5 cm (framed)
(sold)Venice
Mare Vint Venice 1987. Litography km 39.8 x 39 cm (framed) price 950