Britta Benno & Heather Beardsley
Oli mul kord ... / Once I Had ...
15/10/2019 - 13/11/2019
Kraam artist-run space
K-R 16-19, L-P 12-18
W-F 4-7pm, Sat-Sun 12-6pm
15/10/2019
Artist-talk 18H
Vernissage 19H
/See English below/
Duonäituse pealkirjastus „Oli mul kord“ viitab omamise, mugava ületarbimise ja muude inimese ennasthävitavate tõekspidamiste kaduvusele tuleviku Maal.
„Oli mul kord...“ on Britta Benno mõtteline jätk suvisele isikunäitusele „Düstoopiline Tallinn“. Vabaduse väljaku hoonete asemel on seekord düstoopilise linnamaastiku võttekohaks projektiruumile Kraam lähedal asuvad Mustamäe paneelmajade rajoon.
Benno kaasas projekti Viinis kunstiresidentuuris kohatud kaasresidendi, Ameerika kunstniku Heather Beardsley, kes kujutab kummastavalt sarnaseid düstoopilisi linnastseene. Kunstnike ühendab tehniliselt ka nostalgiliste leidesemete kasutamine, kollaažilik kihiline võttestik, trükigraafilised ülekandmise meetodid ja ootamatute materjalide kombineerimine. Benno joonistab, trükib või animeerib düstoopilistele linnavaadetele vee või tule, Beardsley õmbleb või tikib hooned taimestiku mahulisse rohelusse.
Britta Benno on Tallinnas elav ja töötav joonistus- ja graafikakunstnik. Teda huvitavad erinevad hübriidtehnikad ja materjalid ning nende kõrvutamisel ja kombineerimisel avanevad uued perspektiivid. 2018. aastast õpib ta Eesti Kunstiakadeemia doktoriõppes kunsti ja disaini erialal, loomepõhise uurimistöö teemaks "Kaasaegsed eesti naisgraafikud: identiteedid, meediumid ja omaruumid.“www.brittabenno.com
Heather Beardsley on Ameerika kujutav kunstnik. Aastatel 2016-2017 pälvis ta Saksamaa Alam-Saksi teadus- ja kultuuriministeeriumi rahvusvahelise kunstniku stipendiumi. Ta lõpetas Chicago Kunstiinstituudi vabade kunstide magistriprogrammi tekstiili- ja materjaliteaduse alal 2015. aastal. Tema töid on eksponeeritud kõikjal Ameerika Ühendriikides, aga ka Euroopas: Suurbritannias, Austrias, Saksamaal ja Slovakkias. www.heatherbeardsley.com
Näitust ja Kraam artist-run space tegevust toetab Eesti Kultuurkapital.
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**Pilt: Britta Benno "Düstoopiline Mustamägi", 3D visand seinajoonistusele.
The exhibition’s title, Once I Had..., refers to the transience of possession, convenience of over-consumption and other self-destructive implications of human behavior on the future of Earth.
Once I Had.. is a conceptual continuation of Britta Benno recent solo exhibition „Dystopic Tallinn“. In this project the apocalyptic landscape scenery is site-specifically depicted with the Mustamäe district’s panel houses, as they are located in the vicinity of the Kraam artist run-space.
Benno invited American artist Heather Beardsley to this project, as they met while during an artist residency in Vienna, where they were coincidentally both depicting dystopian landscapes. The works relate not only through imagery, but also materially and technically. There are many common links between the two artists: Benno and Beardsley both use nostalgic found objects, collage-like layering, printmaking and transfer methods, and inconvenient materials combinations. Benno draws, prints or animates water or fire on her dystopian landscapes, Beardsley sews or embroiders volumetric flora on top of photographic cityscapes.
Britta Benno is a drawing and printmaking artist living and working in Tallinn. She is interested in various techniques and materials and the new perspectives that appear when they are contrasted and combined. Currently, she is studying for a doctorate at the Estonian Academy of Arts, her PhD-in-Practice research is about Estonian contemporary women printmakers: spaces, mediums, identities. www.brittabenno.com
Heather Beardsley is an American visual artist. In 2016-2017 she was awarded an International Artist Scholarship by the Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Germany. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Fibers and Material Studies in 2015. She has exhibited work throughout the United States and Europe, as well as the UK, Austria, Germany, and Slovakia. www.heatherbeardsley.com
The exhibition and Kraam artis-run space is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
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**Image: Britta Benno "Düstoopiline Mustamägi", 3D sketch
