On Wednesday, October 15, at 17:00, the exhibition “The Doctor Aunt Rides a Fire Truck…” will open at the Kuressaare Town Hall Gallery.
“The Doctor Aunt Rides a Fire Truck, Because Someone Has Stolen Something.”
This was the conclusion of a five-year-old child upon hearing a threatening siren. That was a long time ago. Since then, many new warning signals have appeared. Are we capable of sensing the true nature of these sirens? Or are we like the sailors of Ancient Greek mythology, lured into illusion by the song of the bird-women sirens?
Human perception varies. When interpreting the surrounding world through figurative metaphors, one begins to understand the artist’s attitude. While realizing their ideas and fantasies, the artist is completely immersed in the process, without the need to please everyone. Always searching, without rules or formulas, making mistakes and discovering along the way — each in their own manner. Whether and how the audience understands the artist’s work is not directly measurable.
Yet the artist grows with the support of the audience — and vice versa. Together we create new perspectives on the world and pose questions to those who listen and see. And not only to them.
Erika Pedak (b. 1948) is a textile artist (graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in 1985) and textile historian (University of Tartu, 2007), and an active participant in exhibitions. She has twice been named Textile Artist of the Year by the Estonian Textile Artists Association.
Beginning her creative path with tapestry weaving, the artist has long worked in her own authorial techniques using a wide range of materials. Since moving to Saaremaa, Erika Pedak has successfully practiced wet felting, a technique that has also inspired her son.
https://www.villavolli.ee/
Tambet Pedak (b. 1973) is an interior architect who graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2000. He has worked at ARS Projekt OÜ and since 2004 has operated his own company, Luuk OÜ.
Tambet Pedak has designed numerous interiors, both independently and in collaboration with other interior architects, for public spaces and private residences, including several private houses. He currently lives and works on his family farm in Saaremaa.
https://www.villavolli.ee/
The exhibition will be accompanied by a lecture series, held on three consecutive Wednesdays at 17:00 at the Kuressaare Town Hall Gallery:
The National Romantic Tapestries of Oskar Kallis from 1915 – The Story of a Star That Rose Like a Comet
Wednesday, 22 October at 17:00 — about Oskar Kallis.
Vanda and Her Time – One of the First Professional Applied Art Teachers
Wednesday, 29 October at 17:00.
Art Deco and Modernism in European Textile Art
Wednesday, 5 November at 17:00.
Additional information:
Helena Keskküla
Art Coordinator, Kuressaare Kultuurivara
+372 58 500 958
This was the conclusion of a five-year-old child upon hearing a threatening siren. That was a long time ago. Since then, many new warning signals have appeared. Are we capable of sensing the true nature of these sirens? Or are we like the sailors of Ancient Greek mythology, lured into illusion by the song of the bird-women sirens?
Human perception varies. When interpreting the surrounding world through figurative metaphors, one begins to understand the artist’s attitude. While realizing their ideas and fantasies, the artist is completely immersed in the process, without the need to please everyone. Always searching, without rules or formulas, making mistakes and discovering along the way — each in their own manner. Whether and how the audience understands the artist’s work is not directly measurable.
Yet the artist grows with the support of the audience — and vice versa. Together we create new perspectives on the world and pose questions to those who listen and see. And not only to them.
Erika Pedak (b. 1948) is a textile artist (graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in 1985) and textile historian (University of Tartu, 2007), and an active participant in exhibitions. She has twice been named Textile Artist of the Year by the Estonian Textile Artists Association.
Beginning her creative path with tapestry weaving, the artist has long worked in her own authorial techniques using a wide range of materials. Since moving to Saaremaa, Erika Pedak has successfully practiced wet felting, a technique that has also inspired her son.
https://www.villavolli.ee/
Tambet Pedak (b. 1973) is an interior architect who graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2000. He has worked at ARS Projekt OÜ and since 2004 has operated his own company, Luuk OÜ.
Tambet Pedak has designed numerous interiors, both independently and in collaboration with other interior architects, for public spaces and private residences, including several private houses. He currently lives and works on his family farm in Saaremaa.
https://www.villavolli.ee/
The exhibition will be accompanied by a lecture series, held on three consecutive Wednesdays at 17:00 at the Kuressaare Town Hall Gallery:
The National Romantic Tapestries of Oskar Kallis from 1915 – The Story of a Star That Rose Like a Comet
Wednesday, 22 October at 17:00 — about Oskar Kallis.
Vanda and Her Time – One of the First Professional Applied Art Teachers
Wednesday, 29 October at 17:00.
Art Deco and Modernism in European Textile Art
Wednesday, 5 November at 17:00.
Additional information:
Helena Keskküla
Art Coordinator, Kuressaare Kultuurivara
+372 58 500 958