Jass Kaselaan: “The exhibition Father and Son is comprised of portrait busts and graphic drawings inspired by the friendship my son and I share. For the exhibition, I sculpted portrait busts of myself. I drew my son. To reflect the mysterious, unfathomably layered inner world of a child, I depicted him as different vessels. The metaphor of a ship came to the aid of expressing the hopes and fears associated with the child growing.”
Jass Kaselaan (1981) graduated from the Pallas University of Applied Sciences. He obtained a master’s degree from the sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts (2008) and a master’s degree from the academy’s animation department (2022). He furthered his education at the Imatra Art School in Finland and in the studio of Emil Holmer and Veronica Brovall in Berlin. Jass Kaselaan is considered one of the most recognised sculptors in the younger generation in Estonia. He has been awarded the Köler Prize (2014), the Kristjan Raud Prize (2014), and the Anton Starkopf Sculpture Prize (2011). Jass Kaselaan has been active as a lecturer at the sculpture department of the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Pallas University of Applied Sciences.
In his work, Jass Kaselaan focuses on large-scale sculpture, sound, and spatial installations. His works are characterised by their totality, thought out to the smallest detail, taking into consideration both the topic and the space. His works carry an existential mentality, dealing with the points of intersection of religion, science, and technological progress. Jass Kaselaan is the author of several artworks in public spaces devised within the framework of the Commissioning of Artworks Act.
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Exhibitions in Hobusepea gallery are supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the Estonian Ministry of Culture, and Liviko AS.
