Alice Kask’s exhibition “Blue Motif” continues the artist’s characteristic, meticulously detailed yet sketch-like figurative approach, in which the image seems to break free from the flat surface of the painting. Art historian and curator Tamara Luuk writes about Alice Kask: “Both in drawing and in painting, she is precise, sharp, laconic, and concentrated – even when working with diffused abstraction. Whether large or tiny, the surface she turns into an image becomes spatial. There are no paintings of hers without a drawing element, nor drawings without painterly modelling. Each new exhibition contains something familiar from previous displays, yet always adds something new and unexpected.”
Alice Kask (b 1976) is a painter whose work is often associated with new figurative painting. Kask’s paintings are characterised by a sketch-like quality and taking the quotidian into a territory where it becomes detached from reality. Alice Kask graduated from the painting department of the Estonian Academy of Arts (BA 1999, MA 2002). She has been exhibiting since 1997, including the Prague Biennale (2007) and in “Painting in Process” (2010) in Kumu, a show dedicated to the latest developments in painting. Kask’s works are part of collections of the Art Museum Estonia, Tartu Art Museum, the city of Tallinn, Neumünster Museum and those of private collectors. Following a large solo exhibition at the Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art in 2016, her most recent representative exhibitions have been held at Taidehalli in Helsinki (2018) and Rüki Gallery in Viljandi (2020). Kask has been awarded the Konrad Mägi Prize in 2003 and the Vaal Gallery’s Young Artist Prize in 2005.
The exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
