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26.10.2022 | Culture

New exhibition aimed at novice art collectors opens tomorrow at Victoria Olt Gallery in Tallinn

Text Mark Taylor
Photos Victoria Olt Gallery

New exhibition aimed at novice art collectors opens tomorrow at Victoria Olt Gallery in Tallinn

 

On Thursday, September 27 at 6 pm, a new group exhibition “Art Collection Starter“ will be opened at the Victoria Olt Gallery in the Old Town of Tallinn, to encourage visitors to start creating their own personal art collection. The exhibition presents a rich selection of different techniques in a small format and at affordable prices, from skilled artists, some of whom are at the beginning of their art careers.

“We are organising such an exhibition for art lovers who are interested in creating their own personal collection. A novice collector can choose his or her first work of art from the exhibition and learn how much owning art and exhibiting it in a personal interior adds to life,” explains gallerist Victoria Olt, who is also an artist herself and will present a 6-meter marbling series, the title of which “7.753” refers to the world’s population of 7.7 billion people in the exhibition.

„One of the characteristics of water marbling as a technique is that the artist has only a bit of control of how the artwork is going to end up looking and therefore it could never be replicated, so each piece is unique and irreplicable, just like people are,“ adds Olt. 

Other interesting techniques represented in the exhibition are magnetotype, sumi-e, mezzotinto, anamorphosis and alcohol ink, as well as more classic acrylic and oil, watercolour and sketches. Local names worth highlighting include Liisa-Aleksandra Volmer, who received the Young Artist Award of the Estonian Academy of Arts last year, and Marita Liivak, who will exhibit her personal exhibition at the gallery next spring.

 

Ksenia Sulaeva “Voyeurism”
Ksenia Sulaeva “The great male renunciation”

 

From abroad the gallery is welcoming Ukrainian Ksenia Sulaeva, who has studied at the Luhansk and Lviv National Art Universities, but moved to Estonia a few years ago. The Italian Elena Rossato and the London-based Pole Tomasz Mro, who are both extremely popular digital artists of the younger generation.

The participating artists are Elena Rossato, Tomasz Mro, Marita Liivak, Ana Kurist, Margus Kontus, Talia, Liisi Gordejev, Eliis Kuusk, Victoria Olt, Saadu Lyn, Ksenia Sulaeva, Anu Muiste, Lily & Yash, Karl Hendrik Rattus, Liisa-Aleksandra Volmer, Katariina Purru, Helena Tääker, Santa Zukker.

The exhibition „Art Collection Starter“ will remain open at the Victoria Olt Gallery (Viru 20, Tallinn) until December 22 this year. The gallery is open Monday-Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm, entrance is free of change.

 

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