Viinistu Art Museum
Viinistu, Harjumaa
Estonia
For more information contact curator Margot Kask at margot.kask@gmail.com or by calling
+372 5275531 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Sep 4, 2012
Drawing Installation at Viinistu Chapel
Peerna was invited to create a site specific drawing installation for Viinistu Art Museum's Chapel which is overlooking the Baltic sea in Viinistu, Estonia. The artist was inspired by the special site and the ever changing view from the huge window facing the sea. Peerna created a 18 meters (60 feet) long graphite drawing which continues the horizon line seen from the "altar window". The chapel is open to all visitors until September, 25th 2012 daily.
Viinistu Art Museum
Viinistu, Harjumaa
Estonia
For more information contact curator Margot Kask at margot.kask@gmail.com or by calling
+372 5275531 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Chapel overview with Peerna's drawing installation on the walls. photo: David Rothenberg
Drawing installation on the side of the chapel. photo: Tanel Rannala
Jaanika Peerna at the opening of the installation. photo: Pille Olde
Close up of the drawing. photo: Pille Olde
View out to the sea with drawing on the wall. photo: Rita Rahu
Viinistu Art Museum
Viinistu, Harjumaa
Estonia
For more information contact curator Margot Kask at margot.kask@gmail.com or by calling
+372 5275531 (Tallinn, Estonia)
Jul 27, 2012
Silent Revolution: group exhibition in Tallinn
Curatorial Project of the Tallinn Drawing Triennial
VAIKNE REVOLUTSIOON / SILENT REVOLUTION
Tallinn International Drawing Triennial “Vaikne revolutsioon/Silent Revolution“, curated by
Anu Juurak, expands upon the fears and hopes of today’s society and popularizes drawing
in the context of contemporary art.
The curator has used the titles "Hell" (1930-32), "Melancholia" (1933) and "Young Arab"
(1940) of the works of the most famous drawer and cosmopolitan artist Eduard Wiiralt as a
metaphor to exteriorize various themes featured in the exhibition. Hopefully the given
timeline will help the viewer to understand the novelty as well as universality of the
happening processes.
Jaanika Peerna's Live Light, single channel video installation, 2008 is included in the exhibition.
Information: Anu Juurak, tel: 56 68 24 55
Exhibition is open until September 9th.
Tallinn Art Hall
6 Vabaduse väljak
Tallinn, Estonia
Open Wednesdays 12am - 8pm, from Thursdays till Sundays 12am - 6pm
More information: www.kunstihoone.ee <http://www.kunstihoone.ee;
for Estonian State TV news on the exhibition click here
VAIKNE REVOLUTSIOON / SILENT REVOLUTION
Tallinn International Drawing Triennial “Vaikne revolutsioon/Silent Revolution“, curated by
Anu Juurak, expands upon the fears and hopes of today’s society and popularizes drawing
in the context of contemporary art.
The curator has used the titles "Hell" (1930-32), "Melancholia" (1933) and "Young Arab"
(1940) of the works of the most famous drawer and cosmopolitan artist Eduard Wiiralt as a
metaphor to exteriorize various themes featured in the exhibition. Hopefully the given
timeline will help the viewer to understand the novelty as well as universality of the
happening processes.
Jaanika Peerna's Live Light, single channel video installation, 2008 is included in the exhibition.
Information: Anu Juurak, tel: 56 68 24 55
Exhibition is open until September 9th.
Tallinn Art Hall
6 Vabaduse väljak
Open Wednesdays 12am - 8pm, from Thursdays till Sundays 12am - 6pm
More information: www.kunstihoone.ee <http://www.kunstihoone.ee;
for Estonian State TV news on the exhibition click here
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| Live Light, one channel video with sound, 2008 by Jaanika Peerna |
May 15, 2012
New Curatorial Project: SILENCE opens May, 24 in NYC
Curated by Jaanika Peerna
Exhibition 24 May - 5 July 2012
OPENING RECEPTION 24 May, 2012
SIX TO EIGHT IN THE EVENING
Masters & Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street New York, NY 10013
+1 646 926 2787
GALLERY@MASTERSPELAVIN.COM
for more info:http://masterspelavin.com/silence/
Masters & Pelavin is proud to present Silence, a group exhibition of international artists, curated by Estonian artist and curator Jaanika Peerna. A variety of media will be shown—video, sculpture, painting, photography and installation—a number of artists represented, including: Peter Baumann, Anne Lindberg, Janine Magelsen, Kazumi Tanaka, Thomas Fougeirol, Kaido Ole, Jaan Toomik, Jaanika Peerna and Krista Mölder.
What can silence mean in a world as noisy as ours, to minds as filled with images, thoughts, and plans as the one around us? One often hears that there is no such thing as silence, as John Cage found out when he entered the anechoic chamber at Harvard, a room designed to research the complete absence of sound. He heard the beat of his heart and the firing of neurons in his brain.
We can barely attain silence but we continue to quest for it, and we are in awe when we find it. As Max Picard writes in his eloquent and spiritual book The World of Silence in 1952, “When silence is present it is as though nothing but silence has ever existed.” As Picard continues, “Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence.” It is as if the world watches us, looking for all those things of which we cannot speak. Each artist in this exhibition offers us a work which comments on a different aspect of those things that can be perceived only in quiet, or what is impossible to say, or what is forbidden to be said.
Within Western culture, silence is defined as the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech. Yet, silence is used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. It is the absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern. A freedom from the onslaught of thoughts and thought patterns. A state of being forgotten. A bringing to rest or stillness. A hush. A quell. A muzzle.
image: Jaanika Peerna, Murmuring Silence, graphite on mylar, 36x36 in, 2012
Exhibition 24 May - 5 July 2012
OPENING RECEPTION 24 May, 2012
SIX TO EIGHT IN THE EVENING
Masters & Pelavin Gallery
13 Jay Street New York, NY 10013
+1 646 926 2787
GALLERY@MASTERSPELAVIN.COM
for more info:http://masterspelavin.com/silence/
Masters & Pelavin is proud to present Silence, a group exhibition of international artists, curated by Estonian artist and curator Jaanika Peerna. A variety of media will be shown—video, sculpture, painting, photography and installation—a number of artists represented, including: Peter Baumann, Anne Lindberg, Janine Magelsen, Kazumi Tanaka, Thomas Fougeirol, Kaido Ole, Jaan Toomik, Jaanika Peerna and Krista Mölder.
What can silence mean in a world as noisy as ours, to minds as filled with images, thoughts, and plans as the one around us? One often hears that there is no such thing as silence, as John Cage found out when he entered the anechoic chamber at Harvard, a room designed to research the complete absence of sound. He heard the beat of his heart and the firing of neurons in his brain.
We can barely attain silence but we continue to quest for it, and we are in awe when we find it. As Max Picard writes in his eloquent and spiritual book The World of Silence in 1952, “When silence is present it is as though nothing but silence has ever existed.” As Picard continues, “Silence looks at man more than man looks at silence.” It is as if the world watches us, looking for all those things of which we cannot speak. Each artist in this exhibition offers us a work which comments on a different aspect of those things that can be perceived only in quiet, or what is impossible to say, or what is forbidden to be said.
Within Western culture, silence is defined as the relative or total lack of audible sound. By analogy, the word silence may also refer to any absence of communication, even in media other than speech. Yet, silence is used as total communication, in reference to non verbal communication and spiritual connection. It is the absence or omission of mention, comment, or expressed concern. A freedom from the onslaught of thoughts and thought patterns. A state of being forgotten. A bringing to rest or stillness. A hush. A quell. A muzzle.
image: Jaanika Peerna, Murmuring Silence, graphite on mylar, 36x36 in, 2012
Mar 29, 2012
Live Drawing/ Dance Performance and Exchibition in NYC
Jaanika Peerna Exhibition and Live Drawing/Dance Performance at New York Estonian HouseDocumentation of the live drawing and dance performance is here
EXHIBITION of DRAWINGS
11 April 2011 – 1 May 2012
New York Estonian House
243 East 34th Street
New York, NY 10016
Opening Reception April 11 6-8PM
7PM live drawing and dance performance with dancer Jane Thornquist
Video of the live drawing/dance performance:Otherwise open by appointment only:
Contact Katrin Albaz 212 684 0336 or e-mail:info@estonianhousenewyork.com
This exhibition, entitled "Wind and Light", is part of NY Estonian Cultural Days programming and features dynamic drawings of forces in nature. The drawings are wax pigment and graphite on mylar, ranging from intimate, 5 x 5 inch squares to larger, more ambitious expressions measuring up tothree feet on a side. Regardless of scale, the group of drawings, identified by the titles: Air Dance Series and Maelstrom Series, are a response to the motions of air and wind. An economy of line spontaneously, yet assuredly, echoes the swirling, energized forces of nature. Peerna writes of these works that they are “mappings of air movement in nature registered by my senses. They chart quiet and tender breezes but also storms that have the power to destroy. There is beauty in the extremes as well as a hint of anxiety. The works are very immediate responses to sensory data and also reverberate on a bigger theme of changes in climate.” Their simplicity of black on white combined with an intense energy yields a rare profundity and beauty.
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