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August Kunnapu
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23/4/2009

August Kunnapu

Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin

GDR - I love you. Pictures 1999 - 2009. In principle, Kunnapu stays a singular player, whose art does not fit into the frames of any mainstream artistic trend. Various critics have tried to identify his style with bad painting and post-naivism, as well as British neo-pop.


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August Künnapu (1978) appeared on the Estonian art scene at the end of the 1990s and immediately caught the attention of estonian critics and curators. His first personal exhibition merited him the title of the "prodigy of the new Estonian painting", whose uniqueness and contemporary outlook produce a new sense of reality, at once grotesque and visionary. The image of an exclusive artist remains: in principle, Künnapu stays a singular player, whose art does not fit into the frames of any mainstream artistic trend. Various critics have tried to identify his style with bad painting and post-naivism, as well as British neo-pop.

Künnapu himself has studied in London and has closely followed the yBa activities, describing them as "original, smart, brilliant and spontaneous", all of which can easily be applied to his own work as well. The best visual comparison for his work seems to be Martin Maloney, who also fosters naivist figurative painting. But unlike Maloney's small comic-like narratives, Künnapu lacks the British-own shock strategy, self-evident conceptuality and irony. His paintings are characterised by sincerity and certain utopianism; his deconstructions are friendly and reality shifts soft.
Elnara Taidre

Opening on Friday, April 24th 7-9 p.m.

Giedre Bartelt Galerie
Linienstrasse 161 - Berlin
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