They were created in the early formative years of the artist’s creative and philosophical career. Vint adopted ink drawing as a medium due to the influence of his good friend and an important art innovator Ülo Sooster. By combining the automatist technique with images from other visual systems (see, for instance, his scientific illustrations), the artist considerably expanded the contemporary vocabulary of visual art. Such multiplanar synthesis of several systems became a programme of his for the rest of Vint’s creative path.
Tõnis Vint (1942–2019) was an artist and art theoretician, who started his career in the 1960s. To the Estonian audience, he should be familiar as a (symbol-)conscious conceptual graphic artist and an innovative graphic designer, who also offered interesting solutions for organising the living space (from apartments to urban environments) and worked out his own system of comparing various visual phenomena. Tõnis Vint’s extensive and versatile legacy consists of many layers, which still await discovery and closer study.
The exhibition is on view until 14 November.
Curator: Eva Vint
Exhibition design: Raul Kalvo
Graphic design: Tuuli Aule
Text: Elnara Taidre
Exhibition design: Raul Kalvo
Graphic design: Tuuli Aule
Text: Elnara Taidre
Thank you: Punch Drinks
