Chance and luck tend to play a crucial role in life. Sometimes it even seems to be the main thing that shapes us as people. Where and as we are born. What will be our physical and mental limitations. Who or what we meet on our way and how these encounters will influence and shape us, consciously or unconsciously, to a greater or lesser extent. A huge amount of randomness that is in a constant daily battle with the desire to control and manage your life.
The painting exhibition of Gerth Kuusk “BOW TO CHAOS” a vigorous explosion of color and form both on canvas and watercolor paper. A kind of ode to the occasions where the artist puts his two children on the podium, portraying nothing yet comprehensible, carefree and spontaneous artistic chaos and mixes it with his own representational technique. The result is 19 acrylic paintings and 47 mixed media watercolors, whose equal authors are the artist Gerth Kuusk (b. 1983), his son Klaus Johan Kuusk (b. 2020) and his daughter Hilde Johanna Kuusk (b. 2022).
Gerth Kuusk:
“There are sometimes quite surreal situations in life. But all this leads somewhere. Somewhere to the next place. To some next stage. Plays out somehow. Each line is ultimately an inevitable part of our life’s canvas and must be accepted. Or instead of reconciling, maybe emphasize it, feel proud, be grateful and worship.”
Gerth Kuusk is a self-taught artist without a degree in painting who works as a designer on a daily basis. The first experiments with classical painting were born in 2012, after which the artist’s ambition and artistic deepening have continued to grow. In 2015, he graduated from the advanced training in classical painting at the EKA Open Academy, and in 2019 he graduated from Tallinn University’s Haapsalu College, majoring in craft technologies and design. Kuusk puts a central place in his work on a person and his relationship with an abstract and occasionally metaphysical environment that reflects the states of the inner world. Kuusk has participated in several auctions of young art and participated in annual exhibitions of painters in Pärnu and Tallinn.
Exhibition is open from 12th of April until 27th of April
