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On Tuesday, 15 May 2007 at 6 PM, the gallery project TÖÖ TOIDAB! (WORK FEEDS!) by the third-year fine arts students of the Estonian Academy of Arts will open at the soon-to-be-launched Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Põhja pst. 35, Tallinn).
The factory district closer to the harbour, in the immediate vicinity of Linnahall, where exhibition spaces were assigned to us for renovation and restoration, tells robustly romantic stories of the recent industrial past. These enchanting factory monsters speak of work, lives, and circumstances that remain foreign and distant to the contemporary art student.
Out of deep respect and fascination for the surrounding area, as well as for this particular building and its spaces, we felt it appropriate to construct the exhibition in a site-specific manner. The works in the exhibition speak about ourselves – graduating art students within a given place, at this particular moment in time, amid the pressing issues of a fragile present, while also looking back at the past and peering into the future: what awaits us as practicing artists, and what the rises and falls of an artist’s life path may be.
Especially for this project, ten “great personalities” buried their egos and shared all works and responsibilities collectively; therefore, none of the works in the exhibition spaces are signed.
The exhibition is supported by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Estonian Academy of Arts, the Department of Painting, the Department of Graphic Art, and the students participating in the exhibition.
http://artishok.blogspot.com/2007/06/kokkuvte-eka-iii-kursuse-vabade.html