Enn Tegova narrates story after story, taking time to talk and present his undercurrent-rich plots in detail. In the artist’s paintings, randomness and reality meet, real things and fantasies, existing moments and their further developments – someone who has briefly entered the studio door and read poems becomes a story in the picture; someone who has plopped down on the floor to sleep quietly becomes a dream; the light that has slipped across the studio space is shaped into a repetition of faces disappearing into the distance; surrealism touches on the strange foreboding characters living on the pages of the subconscious, bringing them into the visible space of independent paintings. Enn Tegova’s works are hints of the artist’s memory and consciousness from different moments of his life, from the 1960s to today – from “antique” to modern times – both indirectly and directly. Imposing larger-than-life figures of Greek deities on floor-to-ceiling canvases look at Olympia lying on the gallery walls, as well as a Mayan boy with a mouse, a red lonely sun, a kiss on Toome or an upside-down Marie Under, whose whispers of verses become loud in the viewer’s ears, as if consecrating whatever images and creations deep vocation rooms. Enn Tegova’s paintings in the two-floor halls of the Haus Gallery open to the viewer one of the most concise interpretations of life’s connections and its spheres of perception, with the peace and contemplative pleasure characteristic of a Tartan, without always rushing anywhere.
