“I remember that colour did not interest me at all: I had no sense that it added anything. Design and content seemed more important. The accelerator for my return to colour about five years ago may have been, to put it in semi-sincere terms, coffee shop conversations with the art historian Krista Piirimäe, where, in the relaxed manner typical of our conversations, she chided me for the lack of colour, and thought that I probably couldn´t do it any more,” the artist recalls.
Markus Kasemaa (b. 1972) is an Estonian artist. He studied art at Tartu Art School, Department of Sculpture (1990-1991) and at Tartu University, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Painting (1991-1995). He is a member of Estonian Artists’ Union and Tartu Artist’s Union. Kasemaa has participated in numerous exhibitions both in Estonia and internationally, including approx 50 soloexhbitions in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Austria, Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ireland, Malaysia, the USA, United Arab Emirates and Turkey. His works have also been featured on the covers of the scientific journals Nature and Cell and in the Estonian National Atlas.
