New Estonian Architecture Exhibition, Geometry and Metaphysics. Mare Vint and Arne Maasik
Geometry and Metaphysics. Mare Vint and Arne Maasik
Estonian Architecture Exhibition News in 2019, Tallinn, Estonia
27 May 2019
New Estonian Architecture Exhibition
Opening of the exhibition “Geometry and Metaphysics. Mare Vint and Arne Maasik”
Geometry and Metaphysics. Mare Vint and Arne Maasik
Opening of the exhibition June 6th at 5 p.m. 2019
Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn, Estonia
Printmaker Mare Vint and architect-photographer Arne Maasik, younger by one generation, are both well-known Estonian artists. However, the exhibition in the Museum of Estonian Architecture is for the first time they are presenting their works together, a specific dialogue is created where Maasik?s works are in direct response to those of Vint. Mare Vint. Air and metal II. 1988. Litography:

image : Arne Maasik. Architectonics XIX. 2019. Digital photo
The photo series Architectonics specially taken for the exhibition are like Maasik?s tribute to Vint?s architecturally organised pictorial worlds, but also reflect his understanding of the ideal space and ideal architecture as an architect. These are meticulous compositions where nothing is redundant and nothing is missing, where architecture has reached the ultimate level of abstraction and generalisation.
Maasik, who had previously photographed scrubby thickets and houses, has this time constructed the photographed objects himself: ...