Tõnis Saadoja (1980) is a painter, working with figurative analysis and matters of personal history (writings) and “small histories”. His works are described by their conceptual structure and quest for the technically exclusive form in everyday motives. The use of series are prevailing in Saadoja’s ouvre, the selected motive varies in a multiple sequence of works. Using photography as a starting point, he deals with the deceptive un-pretentiousness but also its capacity to shape reality.
Writer Aare Pilv remarks in the exhibition’s accompanying text: “Tõnis Saadoja’s exhibition “Then” at Tütar gallery consists of two series of paintings whose past instalments have formed part of previous exhibitions. The paintings in series “Model of recollecting” depict urban landscapes “caught in a box”. Some of them no longer exist in reality, making them images of the past, or more precisely visual memory, where the most important thing is soft but bright summer afternoon or evening light. The other series consists of attempts to use old painting and canvas processing techniques when depicting the sky and clouds, and also constitutes a kind of project of remembering and recalling – in this case, more directly regarding art history.”
Text: Aare Pilv
Graphic design: Ott Metusala
Exhibition opening gallery: Kaarel Antonov
