Opening: Wednesday, July 22 at 5:30 PM
On Friday, July 31 at 3:00 PM, you can meet the artist at the exhibition as part of the Artists’ House Open Doors Day.
You are warmly welcome!
The exhibition tells the story of three seeds whose ripening had been long awaited. The seeds were just about ready to fall to the earth, and the soil for them had been plowed, harrowed, and fertilized.
And then came the dove, who ate the seeds and flew away.
“The idea for the exhibition started years ago when I heard somewhere that plants can end up in completely unexpected places inside birds’ stomachs. A bird eats the seeds and excretes them, for instance, on the other side of the globe. Is the journey of plants inside a bird’s stomach an accident, or rather a clever way of survival?”
Pusa’s exhibition ponders whether randomness is truly accidental or if everything is predetermined.
The exhibition “And Then Came the Dove…” invites the visitor directly inside the painting; every exhibition visitor becomes a part of the artwork.
Sometimes one bird, one seed, or one seemingly wrong moment is enough for something completely new and incredible to begin.
PUSA (Piret Bergmann (Torim))
The patterns and lines of Pusa’s paintings take you on a journey that tells the story of creation and anticipation, withering and blooming, purity and chaos. Of everything human. Everything that would make the viewer a better person or bring him back to the purest childishness. Although in their cheerful simplicity Pusa’s paintings may look like illustrations or decorative pictures, this is just a trick. They are like tiny pieces of a mosaic, the endless magic of life cannot be revealed just by looking at one painting; however, if we put all her creations together, we are faced with a bottomless journey inside, outside, and everything in between. Life makes a circle in her works, always coming back to the grassroots – continuing the same journey until new beginnings.
Pusa was born in Noarootsi in 1979 and graduated from the Pärnu College of the Estonian Academy of Arts, better known as the Academia Non Grata. Pusa works daily in Pärnu mainly as a painter and has presented her works in many individual and group exhibitions.
She has also written and illustrated several children’s books, the last one published in 2024 “Tähtsad täpid” (in collaboration with Helle Kirs). She has been awarded the Ants Laikmaa Young Artist Award (1998), the Estonian Cultural Foundation’s Pärnuma Cultural Artist Award (2008) and the Pärnu Art Annual Award (2011). Pusa is also a member of the Estonian Artists Union.
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
Contact:
piret.p.bergmann@gmail.com
pusakunst.ee
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Admission to all Pärnu City Gallery exhibitions is free.
Pärnu City Gallery opening hours: Tue–Sat 11–18 (closed on public holidays)
