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Brenda Purtsak Sisselõige

03.10.-27.10


Brenda Purtsaku isikunäitus “Sisselõige”, annab ülevaate nii kunstniku viimase nelja aasta loometööst kui esitleb kahte uudisteost. Näitus on avatud Haapsalu linnagaleriis 3.10.2024 kuni 27.10.2024. Avamine toimub 2.10.2024 kell 17.00. Kunstnikud olid need, kes tõid anatoomia operatsioonisaalist välja. Kui arstid – hea pooltuhat aastat tagasi – inimkeha anatoomilist tõde lahkama asusid, oli kunstnik neile hädatarvilik kaaslane. Enamat kui abiline. Kunstnik oli see, kes suutis anatoomilise tegelikkuse tõlkida joonte, toonide ja värvide keelde. Teisisõnu, muuta anatoomiline tegelikkus pildiks. Klassikalise anatoomilise joonistuse kriteeriumiks on arusaadavus, loetavus, selgus ja lihtsus; väärtused mis tunduvad Brenda Purtsaku maalide ees aga teisejärgulised. Siin kohtume läbipõimunud ja soonelise lihaga, mis trotsib selget kujutamist. Mõnes mõttes kohtume anatoomia paratamatusega. Paratamatusega mitte mingisuguses keha ja vaimu vastandamise registris, vaid labaselt praktilises tões: Keha on protsess. Ning elus olemine on kestvussport. Purtsaku teosed jutustavad meile kehast, mida anatoomiline joonistus loodi talitsema. Mõistusetagusest objektist, mille väljendusvõimalused ulatuvad kohutaivamast valust ülevaima ekstaasini. Minakogemuse, millest arusaamine ulatub harva üle “selle koha kust valutab”. Kunstnik on püüdnud oma maalidesse selle toore kehakogemuse, mida on võimalik valitseda ainult meditsiini templites; mis muidu valitseb meid. “Sisselõike”, näol on tegu ülevaatenäitusega, mis asetab fookusesse inimkeha fantastilise, kummastava, valusa ja kauni suhte iseendaga. Brenda Purtsak’s personal exhibition „Incision“ offers an overview of the artist's work throughout the past four years, as well as showcasing two new works. The exhibition in Haapsalu City Gallery opens on 2.10.2024 at 17:00 and will be open from 3.10.2024 until 27.10.2024. It was the artists who took anatomy out of the operating room. About half a century ago, when doctors began to dissect the anatomical truth of the human body, artists were invaluable companions in this endeavour. More than companions. It was the artist, who possessed the ability to translate anatomical reality into the language of lines, tonal values and colours. In other words, they were able to transform the anatomically real into an image. The criteria for classical anatomical drawings are comprehension, legibility, clarity and simplicity; yet all those values are rendered obsolete when standing in front of Brenda Purtsak’s works. Here we are met with intertwined and striated flesh, which resists clarity in depiction. In some sense, what we encounter may be labelled as the inevitability of anatomy. Not in the sense of the divide between body and spirit, instead the inevitable is revealed in a simple and practical truth: the body is a process. Living is an endurance sport. Purtsak’s works tell us about ungovernable bodies, which were to be controlled and mastered through the invention of anatomical drawing. They tell us about objects beyond comprehension, which possess means of expression ranging from unbearable pain to sublime ecstasy. About a sense of self, the understanding of which rarely extends beyond „this is where it hurts.“ The artist has captured in her work a raw bodily experience, which can only be controlled in the temples of modern medicine; which usually has control over us. „Incision“ is a retrospective exhibition, which places at the heart of it the human body’s fantastic, uncanny, painful and beautiful relationship with itself.

Brenda Purtsaku isikunäitus “Sisselõige”, annab ülevaate nii kunstniku viimase nelja aasta loometööst kui esitleb kahte uudisteost.
Näitus on avatud Haapsalu linnagaleriis 3.10.2024 kuni 27.10.2024. Avamine toimub 2.10.2024 kell 17.00.

Kunstnikud olid need, kes tõid anatoomia operatsioonisaalist välja. Kui arstid – hea pooltuhat aastat tagasi – inimkeha anatoomilist tõde lahkama asusid, oli kunstnik neile hädatarvilik kaaslane. Enamat kui abiline. Kunstnik oli see, kes suutis anatoomilise tegelikkuse tõlkida joonte, toonide ja värvide keelde. Teisisõnu, muuta anatoomiline tegelikkus pildiks. Klassikalise anatoomilise joonistuse kriteeriumiks on arusaadavus, loetavus, selgus ja lihtsus; väärtused mis tunduvad Brenda Purtsaku maalide ees aga teisejärgulised. Siin kohtume läbipõimunud ja soonelise lihaga, mis trotsib selget kujutamist. Mõnes mõttes kohtume anatoomia paratamatusega. Paratamatusega mitte mingisuguses keha ja vaimu vastandamise registris, vaid labaselt praktilises tões: Keha on protsess. Ning elus olemine on kestvussport. Purtsaku teosed jutustavad meile kehast, mida anatoomiline joonistus loodi talitsema. Mõistusetagusest objektist, mille väljendusvõimalused ulatuvad kohutaivamast valust ülevaima ekstaasini. Minakogemuse, millest arusaamine ulatub harva üle “selle koha kust valutab”. Kunstnik on püüdnud oma maalidesse selle toore kehakogemuse, mida on võimalik valitseda ainult meditsiini templites; mis muidu valitseb meid. “Sisselõike”, näol on tegu ülevaatenäitusega, mis asetab fookusesse inimkeha fantastilise, kummastava, valusa ja kauni suhte iseendaga.

Brenda Purtsak’s personal exhibition „Incision“ offers an overview of the artist's work throughout the past four years, as well as showcasing two new works.
The exhibition in Haapsalu City Gallery opens on 2.10.2024 at 17:00 and will be open from 3.10.2024 until 27.10.2024.

It was the artists who took anatomy out of the operating room. About half a century ago, when doctors began to dissect the anatomical truth of the human body, artists were invaluable companions in this endeavour. More than companions. It was the artist, who possessed the ability to translate anatomical reality into the language of lines, tonal values and colours. In other words, they were able to transform the anatomically real into an image. The criteria for classical anatomical drawings are comprehension, legibility, clarity and simplicity; yet all those values are rendered obsolete when standing in front of Brenda Purtsak’s works. Here we are met with intertwined and striated flesh, which resists clarity in depiction. In some sense, what we encounter may be labelled as the inevitability of anatomy. Not in the sense of the divide between body and spirit, instead the inevitable is revealed in a simple and practical truth: the body is a process. Living is an endurance sport. Purtsak’s works tell us about ungovernable bodies, which were to be controlled and mastered through the invention of anatomical drawing. They tell us about objects beyond comprehension, which possess means of expression ranging from unbearable pain to sublime ecstasy. About a sense of self, the understanding of which rarely extends beyond „this is where it hurts.“ The artist has captured in her work a raw bodily experience, which can only be controlled in the temples of modern medicine; which usually has control over us. „Incision“ is a retrospective exhibition, which places at the heart of it the human body’s fantastic, uncanny, painful and beautiful relationship with itself.