| | | |  | | Estonia | | 7th - 28th January 2005 | | | | An exhibition of Estonian contemporary art by F.F.F.F. | | | | Click here to view photo gallery of this exhibition | | | | |  | | | | | Vanemuine, lend me your Lyre.
A sweet song is stirring my senses
and I long to unfold in song
the legacy of ancient ages.
Wake, o grey and olden voices,
send us secret kennings,
tales of better times
and the joys of dearer days.
Come from Endla's waters
o Vanemuine's daughter.
You've stroked your silken hair
at length in that silver mirror. | | | | Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald (1803-1882) | | | | | | PRESS RELEASE:
VISION CENTRE HOSTS ESTONIA AS ‘NEW’ EUROPE COMES TO CORK | | | | 15th December 2004: After two years of planning, the Cork Civic Trust Cork 2005 partnership project, Enlargement! - bringing the 'new' europe to cork- kicks off its inaugural exhibition in the shape of a female five artist collective known as FFFF, representing Estonia, at the Cork Vision Centre at the launch of ‘Things You Need To Know’ on Thursday January 6th. | | | FFFF consists of five young Estonian female artists:
Ketli Tiitsar; Kristi Paap: Maria Valdma; Berit Teeaar and Kaire Rannik, who all graduated from the metal art department of the Estonian Academy of Arts. They burst suddenly onto the Estonian Arts scene when unexpectedly chosen to represent Estonian contemporary art in Warsaw in 1996. Since then FFFF have exhibited in Estonia; Belgium; Denmark; Poland; Russia; Yugoslavia; Holland; Lithuania and Hungary.
Initially, FFFF was intended as an abbreviation of Fun For Five Females but the artists themselves allowed and encouraged freedom of interpretation, interpretations that continue to surprise them. Specialising in jewellery art, FFFF use a large variety of materials to create their unique jewellery focused work, including photography and installations.
Having visited the Cork Vision Centre in May 2004, the F’s have worked on a concept specific to the space of the restored church, with the focus very much on embracing the Centre’s model of Cork City as part of their exhibition ‘Things You Need To Know’.
Things You Need To Know is a multi-layered mixed media work occupying the Vision Centre’s ground and gallery space that focuses on the identity and public image of Estonians through the presentation of jewellery-souvenirs based on this topic, incorporating an ‘advertising campaign’ for these products, with the advertisements depicting FFFF against the background of places of natural beauty in Estonia. Original pieces will be exhibited on the model of Cork City, as a system of signs similar to traffic signs.
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The Centre’s gallery will host ‘F Files’ a work that explores the distance between reality and perception by way of a series of staged photo shoots in which the F’s identified themselves with brides, rock-babes, the homeless, businesswomen, soldiers, mothers, housewives, folk-dancers, prostitutes and grandmothers.
Cork Civic Trust’s John Miller is looking forward to getting the Estonian exhibition underway.
“It’s been two years since I first approached Pat Cox, then President of the European Parliament, and John Kennedy, Director Cork 2005, with the Enlargement project concept. Their support was immediate and practical, and since then Cork Civic Trust, with the support of Cork 2005, has been working full tilt at putting this project together. For a small voluntary organisation like Cork Civic Trust, the logistics of bringing over 30 artists from 10 different States over the course of a year, is, to put it mildly, daunting.
Cork Civic Trust and Cork 2005 will present for the citizens of, and visitors to Cork, a wide ranging series of exhibitions that will inform, and entertain while challenging stereotypical notions of the ten new European States with their rich collective heritage and history.”
Estonia’s ‘Things You Need To Know’ exhibition will be officially launched by former President of the European parliament, Pat Cox.
Opening to the public on Friday 7th January, it will run until 28th January 2005
For Further Information
Contact: John X Miller
Tel: 021-4279925 (From outside Ireland 00-353-21-4279925)
Email: visioncentre@eircom.net
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