Maal at Draakon Gallery in Tallinn & Hypnotist Collector at NauArt Gallery in Barcelona (2014)
Hypnotist Collector installation view
Maal (2014)
78 paintings of various sizes
water mixable oil paint on canvas board
I googled the word “maal“ (“a painting“ in Estonian) and engaged with the first results that turned up by converting them into real paintings. Small realistic paintings displayed in the gallery create a parallel to the original photographs from the Web. The word gives the signified a special soundscape and by expanding it allows the notion to spread towards the unexpected. As a painter I thought I knew something about painting (about “maal“), but when I googled the word that I used on an everyday basis it seems like I knew nothing at all.