Richard Kaljo
dal 25/9/2014 al 14/3/2015
Segnalato da
25/9/2014
Richard Kaljo
Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
Tales in Prints and Letters. The solo exhibition of the printmaking master's oeuvre, which deals with artistic searches of the first Republic of Estonia, also includes Kai Kaljo's recent video work My Father's Letters.
Starting on Friday, 26 September, at the exhibition Richard Kaljo. Stories in Prints and Letters in the Kumu Art Museum, one can become acquainted with the printmaking master's oeuvre, which deals with artistic searches of the first Republic of Estonia, as well as the interruptions of the Soviet period and attempts to find individual forms of expression. The exhibition also includes Kai Kaljo's recent video work My Father's Letters (2014), which reveals Richard Kaljo from a personal perspective.
Richard Kaljo (1914–1978) was an Estonian graphic artist whose oeuvre includes prints, book illustrations and book-plates. His creative activities took place during two dramatically different periods of Estonian art: he studied at the Higher Art School Pallas and began his promising career as an artist during the pre-war Republic of Estonia, while his more mature artistic endeavours coincided with the Soviet occupation. This conflict, an enforced retreat from modernist searches to the depiction manner dictated by the doctrine of Socialist Realism, is reflected in the present exhibition, which focuses on Kaljo's fine prints.
The idea for the exhibition was proposed by Richard Kaljo's daughter, the artist Kai Kaljo, whose video My Father's Letters (2014), which portrays her personal relationship with her father, is here exhibited in Tallinn for the first time. The screening of the video and meeting with Kai Kaljo will take place on 22 October as a part of the Kadriorg Long Wednesday series.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book entitled Richard Kaljo. Fine Prints in the Collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, which also provides the first detailed overview of Richard Kaljo's fine prints. The publication of the book was supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
We thank the following for their kind cooperation: Richard Kaljo's heirs, especially Kai Kaljo and Jaan Kaljo, the Tartu Art Museum, Rein Vihalemm and Peeter Vihalemm
Exhibition curator: Elnara Taidre
Design of the exhibition: Villu Plink
Graphic design of the exhibition and the book: Külli Kaats
The exhibition visuals can be found in the digital collection of the Art Museum of Estonia.
The exhibition Richard Kaljo. Stories in Prints and Letters will be open on the fourth floor of the Kumu Art Museum until 15 March 2015.
Image: Richard Kaljo, Café, 1943. Dry point. Art Museum of Estonia
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Elnara Taidre
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