Une Année

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“Une année de dialogue” Konschthaus “Beim Engel”,5.–23.02.20131, rue de la Loge, Luxembourg

Tallinn – Luxembourg2.12.2011 – 31.12.2012

de dialogue

Priit Pärn / Marc Bertemes 2.12.2011–29.02.2012Certainly, they are different. Therein stands the meaning of duo-exhibition for artists with different ages, from different surfaces. Priit Pärn, a man in his best age and Marc Bertemes, rather young as an artist. Let’s give a look at the interpretation of liberty, because both of their creation circles around freedom. The liberty of Priit is a power to show both, individual and society, through an ordinary image of man and woman. There is wisdom, courage, and the generalization ability in it, how he constantly notices the world around him. In case of Marc Bertemes, liberty is expressed in hesitation and rebellion, craving and vulnerability. Its very personal output is painting. Where Marc’s question emerges, Priit replies with a smile.

Jüri Kask / Frank Jons 5.03–10.06.2012And still they have something in common. The word “surface” loses its meaning on both of  the author’s paintings, because in the world of abstractions casual rules are not valid. Frank Jons and Jüri Kask are moving freely in that sphere, yet in a completely different direction. Kask can be characterized as ratio of moderation and measurement, strict control and completely composed. The material for his work is the shape of life around him, where else would he find the purpose for his refined forms. Work of Jons, in the other hand, is impulsive and enriches the author.  He enjoys the friction and resonance of pure pigments with emotionality and lush in every single piece. Both authors have found life-long endeavour in their own works.

Raul Meel / Robert Viola 13.06–15.08.2012These artists working in different environments and mediums of expression are united by the word „landscape“.Raul Meel who is working with language, instantly rises above it. Either it is a letter or number, even in his most mechanical shapes and technological approaches, one can’t find the confrontation between culture and nature. The paintings of Robert Viola depict the ground part of industrial depths. Immense ship wrecks are the tip of the iceberg, which underwater part is telling the story of the illusional richness of a mankind, that might end up in a lonely journey of a beduin. In Viola’s diversity of painting techniques, we can see the awe of the steel giants, as well as experience of rust and temporality.

Kaarel Kurismaa / Carine Kraus 11.09–30.12.2012All is movement here. Carine Kraus delicately depict the motion of the human body through discontinued time in her figural paintings. She forces us into a standstill within a rushing thought. To this timelessness, glowing through the fog, the temporal measure of living and moving is given by Kaarel Kurismaa’s world of objects that rings and sounds and shouts, made of lucky chance and loving care, and hes gently flowing abstrct paintings as a backround.

Priit PärnPriit Pärn, born 1946 in Tallinn, graduated from the Department of Biology of University of Tartu in 1970 and afterwards worked at the Botanical Garden of Tallinn as a plant ecologist. Has been active as a caricatur-ist and illustrator since the end of the 1960’s and has done more and more work as a freelance graphic art-ist since the early 1980’s. Over the past 25 years Pärn has had over 30 solo exhibitions in various European countries and Canada.From 1976 to 1994 he worked as an art direc-tor and animated film director at the Joonis-film animated film department of Tallinnfilm Studio. Since 1994 he works at Eesti Joonis-film Studio. Priit Pärn has made 11 animated films of duration up to 45 minutes as well as a host of short films, commercials, etc., for which he received more than 80 honors and prizes, including the „ASIFA Life Achieve-ment Award“ in 2002 and 3 another life achievements awards in different festivals.Pärn has been a jury member on more than 30 internationals film festivals and had about the same number of retrospectives in different places of the world.Pärn has also worked as a teacher over the past 20 years. He has taught at film schools in Finland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Holland, France, England, Bulgaria, Croatia, Turkey, Aus-tralia, Canada, China and Japan. From 1994 to 2007 Pärn was the artistic director of the Animation Depart-ment of the Turku Art Academy in Finland and from 2006 head of the animation department in Estonian Art Academy. From 2008 Pärn is a member of European Film Academy.

Nationalität: luxemburgischStudium:1996 Abitur1996-1999 Germanistik an der Universität Karlsruhe1996-2001 Studium an der staatlichen Akademie der

Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe (Malerei/Grafik) bei den Professoren/innen Horst Antes, Gustav Kluge, Simone Westerwinter und Antje Majewski.

Persönliche Ausstellungen:2003 „Art et Musique“ Grevenmacher

(Luxemburg)2005 „Konschthaus beim Engel“

Luxembourg2006 Cafe Wien, Karlsruhe

Gruppenausstellungen:1998–2001 Jahresausstellung der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe2001 „Instant“, Karlsruhe2001 Kunstverein Schwäbisch-Hall

2002 „100 ans lycée de garcons“ au théatre d’Esch-sur-Alzette (Kat.)2003 8. Quinquenalle d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (Kat.)2005 Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Düssel-

dorf (Kat.)2005–2011 Salon du cercle artistique du

Luxembourg (Kat)2006 Kiiscpelt (L)

2008 Art Beaufort2009 Tuchfabrik Trier2010 Schlachthof Karlsruhe, Galerie op der Cap2011 „Pvrix Grand-Duc Adolphe“ für das

beste Werk des Salon´s du CAL /Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg/

Marc BertemesGeboren am 31.05.1977 in Esch-sur-Alzette, lebt und arbeitet in Karlsruhe

They form an impressive pair - a shortish plump Japanese in a black suit who cuts his way with a sword if necessary, and the heavily pregnant Bride in a white dress and military boots, with an Uzi under her arm.

Warum?, da ich in den Menschen oft ein gewisses Tier zu erkennen glaube oder projeziere. Die Grundfrage lautet, we-shalb handeln wir so wie wir handeln?

Education1965-1969 Tartu Art School, painting1969-1974 Estonian Academy of Arts, painting

Selected solo exhibitions1978 Gallery of Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia1987 The Art Museum of Estonia, Tallinn,

Estonia1989 Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, Estonia1997 Adamson-Eric Museum, Tallinn, Estonia1999 Gallery of Estonian Bank, Tallinn, Estonia1999 Permanent Representation of Estonia to

the EU, Brussels, Belgium2003 „3 maali“, Estonian Embassy in Helsinki,

Finland2005 Le 26, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Liege,

Belgium2005 Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, Oxford,

England

Prizes1978 Young artist of the year, Estonia

1981, 1988 Estonian Artists’Association annual prize of painting

1991 Kristjan Raud annual art award, Estonia

1992 Estonian Cultural Prize2008 laureate of Ado Vabbe art prize

Works in collectionsEstonian Museum of Art, Tartu Art Museum, Tallinn Art Hall, Viinistu Art Museum, Art collection of Tal-linn city; Zimmerl Art Museum, Rutgers University, Estonian Academy of Science, Estonian Ministry of Culture; in private collections in Estonia, Austria, Turkey, Gelmany, Belgium, Russia, USA, Japan, Sweden

2008 Pierre Werner Prize, Luxembourg1998 Galerie Actée Prize, Charenton1991 Auction sale in the auction room of Douai

(Paule and Patrick Declerck)

Personal exhibitions2012/2011 Galerie Ariel Sibony, Paris2011 La Cinquième Galerie, Paris2010 Nosbaum & Reding Gallery, Luxembourg2009 Octave Cowbell Gallery, Metz2008 PWC, Luxembourg2007 European Court of Auditors, Luxembourg2005 Crédit Lyonnais, Luxembourg2003 Société Générale, Luxembourg1999 Actée Gallery, Charenton

Collective exhibitions, shows2012, 2013 Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg, “So so

nice at home”

2011 ArtParis, soloshow Cinquième Galerie, guest Charles Gassot

2007, 2008,2010 MAC Paris, Paris

2002 - 2010 Show Art Circle Luxembourg2005 Biennial event of contemporary art of

Strassen, Luxembourg2003 Centenary of the Salon d’Automne, Paris2003-2007 Art Metz, France

Frank JonsBorn in 1964 in Paris (France), lives and works in Luxembourg since 2001.

Jüri Kask12.07.1949 Kolga-Jaani Viljandi district, Estonia

C’est l’instinct, la découverte, la sur-prise, l’accident qui compte.Au sens propre du terme, c’est un engagement physique.

I do not have the strength to paint flesh, meat, or the surface nide line. It’s too obvious. Paint time, member-ship, existence, that I can!

Raul Meel was born on 2 March 1941 at Reino Farm in Jalase Village in southern Harju County. He studied to be an engineer-electrician. He worked as an electrician 1959-t1961, as a tare weigher 1962–1987, as a master in an experimental graphic art studio 1987-1990, and after that as a freelance artist. He was a persona non grata in art during the Soviet era, although still known beyond the Iron Curtain. During the heyday of graphic art, he was the only Estonian artist who was a member of the International Club of the Prize Winners of the International Print Biennials, No 81, 1972 (the Club invited the winners of the main awards to the world’s 11 most impor-tant graphic art competitions).Selected awards: 4th Prize and 3rd Prize at the Cracow Print Biennial (Poland), 1972: 2nd Prize at the Frechen Print Biennial (West-Germany), 1974; Reklamteknik AB Annual Art Award (Sweden), 1989; Kristjan Raud Award in 1989 (Estonia); Eduard Viiralt Award in 1989 (Estonia); cultural award of the Estonian Republic 1995 and 1998; 2011, 2. prize at the X Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art, Kaliningrad- Koeningsberg (Russia). In addition more than thirty prize-winnings with less significance.

Key exhibitions: 1972, Venice Art Biennale, curator’s exhibition; 1979, New Talents and Ideas of World Art (37 artists, art critics’ award) Boston, Massachusetts, USA; 1994, Raul Meel and Leonhard Lapin, Musée Matisse, Le Cateau Cambrésis, France; 2000, Re-alities and Utopias (eight painters), The Jane Voor-hees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA; Fire in Modern Art, Pedvale Open Air Art Museum, Talsi, Latvia (fire-installation & -performance, 11 artists, 1st Prize); 2004, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov and Raul Meel

(installations), Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia; 2010, Esto-nian dialogue in Henry Van de Velde’s Art Library (vi-sual and sound poetry), Gent, Belgium; XXX Council of Europe Exhibition, German Historical Museum, Berlin, Critique and Crisis. Art in Europe since 1945, October 2012 to February 2013. Altogether more than 500 general and group-exhibitions, and more than 100 one- man-shows and fire-performances.

Né le 27 mai 1966 ą Villerupt (France)Vit et travaille au Grand-Duché de Luxembourg

Etudes artistiquesAcadémie des Beaux-Arts d’Arlon

Expositions personnelles2012 Galerie l’Indépendance, Luxembourg2007 Absolute Art Gallery, Brugges & Knokke2006 Galerie BC/2, Bettem-

bourg2004 Crédit Suisse, Luxem-

bourg2003 Galerie Schlassgoart,

Esch-sur-Alzette2003 Galerie Monumental,

Anvers2002 Galerie BC/2, Bettembourg2001 Fondation Vasarely, Aix-en-Provence1999 Galerie d’Art du Théatre, Esch-sur-Alzette1998 Galerie de Luxembourg, Luxembourg1997 Galerie de l’Arsenal, Metz

1996 Galerie Dominique Lang, Dudelange

Expositions collectivesDepuis 1990 : plus de 150 expositions en France, Luxembourg et Belgiquedont une participation réguličre au Salon du Cercle Artistique de Luxembourg

PrixDepuis 1991 : plus de 20 prix en France,Luxembourg et Belgique

CollectionsLes oeuvres de Robert Viola sont conservées dans des collections publiqueset privées en France, Luxembourg, Allemagne, USA, Italie, Angleterre, Sučde, Belgique entre autre

Robert Viola

Bare essentials.Where an image appeared too static he built series, so a phrase turned into a story. Where a colour or a figure asked for more life, he added a pulsating pattern, a rhytm.

Raul Meel

Viola ne peut s’empêcher dans sa production pic-turale de sonder notre avenir collectif et celui de notre planète en plaçant toujours son approche à la frontière de la réalité et du mythe, du passé et du déclin. présent, de la grandeur et du déclin.

Études et activités professionnelles1968-1972 Ecole Cantonale des Beaux Arts et d’Art

appliqué, Lausanne1972-1973 séminaire pédagogique à l’Université

Lausanne1972-1974 professeur d’éducation artistique, Laus-

anne1974-1976 graphic design et film animé, Höhere

Schule für Gestaltung, Basel,1977-1981 graphiste en communication visuelle à

Paris1981-1983 atelier de peinture à Munich depuis1983 vit et travaille à Boudler1990-1996 stages de lithographie à Trèves et Urbino membre du Cercle Artistique Luxem-

bourg Gesellschaft für Bildende

Kunst Trier BBK Rheinland Pfalz Kunstverein Junge Kunst

Trier

Prix2007 Prix de Raville, Salon du

CAL, Luxembourg1994 Prix du LAC et Prix Electrolux, Salon du

LAC, Luxembourg1986 Lauréate du concours de façades de la

Ville de Luxembourg1972 Premier Prix de peinture, Premier Prix de

lithographie, Ecole Cantonale des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne

Expositions personnelles2012 Bannanefabrik, Luxembourg2012 Künstlermesse “KUNST direkt”, Mainz2008 Galerie du château de Bourglinster2007’ CPCA, Luxembourg2006 Crédit Suisse, Luxembourg2004 Espace Royal Monterey, CAL en Générale2003 Galerie BC2, Bettembourg2002 Galerie de Luxembourg2002 Kulturhueff, Grevenmacher2001 Galerie Arche, Grevenmacher2000 Merzig D. Saarlandtag1999 CID Femmes Luxembourg1998 Galerie Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris1998 Galerie de Luxembourg1998 Galerie Junge Kunst Trier1997 Galerie Acht P.Q. Bonn

1997 Galerie 96, Bourglinster1996 Galerie Sunnen, Luxembourg1996 Galerie Palais Walderdorff, Trier1995 Arthur Andersen & Co. Luxembourg re Culturel Français, Luxembourg

Kaarel KurismaaBorn on May 13,1939 in Pärnu, Estonia. Graduated from the Tartu Art School as an interior decorator in 1965, and graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts as a painter in 1971. Member of the Estonian Artists Association.Worked as a designer for the Tallinn Department Store, and as a designer and art director for the film studio Tallinnfilm. Lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts 1986 - 2003 Participated in exhibitions with his paintings and objects of kinetic art since 1971.He held solo exhibitions in Estonia, Finland and Latvia. Participated in numerous exhibitions in Estonia, Fin-land, Germany, Latvia, Sweden, Russia and USA. He has created lighting installations and kinetic sculptures for public spaces.Annual prize given by the Vinni Cooperative Farm (1990), annual prize given by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia (1995,1997), annual Krist-jan Raud art award (1996).Works held in the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, the Tartu Art Museum, the Tallinn Art Hall and the Zimmerli Art Museum (New Jersey, USA).

Carine KrausNée à Luxembourg, 1949

Je trouve mon inspiration dans le dialogue et la rencontre avec d’autres artistes. J’interprète et rends lisible cette scène en réduisant ou en laissant de côté certains éléments, en accentuant des gestes ou des détails pour leur donner de l’importance.

Flashing lightning appear while shadows carry the overwhelming sequence of all the eye can see apart from the few exceptions ready to reveal the real as well as the imaginary of this world.

“A good painting / is like training a horse / – it requires patience / and a tough hand, / until it becomes clear / to both sides / – who leads, / – who follows.“ Jüri Kask