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Mare Saare - "Artist in Residence" der Glashütte Eisch
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Vernissage: Wednesday, 19.08.2009, 18.00
Duration of the exhibition: 20.08.09 – 07.11.09
Galerie am Museum, Frauenau
Opening hours: Monday – Friday 11-17.30 Uhr, Saturday 11-16 Uhr |
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Mare Saare - Artist in Residence der Glashütte Eisch |
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Catalogue as PDF-File |
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As a guest at the Eisch Factory Mare Saare worked within the “Artist in Residence” program in Frauenau for four weeks. During this time she could use all facilities of the factory to produce her works of art. Objects were created, which, next to recent works from her workshop in Tallinn, are shown from 19 August until 7 November 2009 at the Eisch Atelier Gallery in Frauenau.
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As a “gate between East and West“ colleague Sandra De Clerck introduced the Estonian artist Mare Saare at the opening of her current Frauenau exhibition. Indeed, the name of the well-travelled, versatile glass professor of the Tallinn art academy is strongly linked to the arrival of the multifaceted glass art of Estonia and the Baltic countries within the International Studio Glass Movement.
At the same time, Mare Saare‘s work not only re-opens our view toward a distant glass and art scene, but also towards the fleeting magic of the landscape of the Baltic Sea, as well as towards a personality that unites vitality and vulnerability in a unique way.
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Glass, its fragility and its origin from granular, easily blown away sand, is used with ingenious virtuosity. A chalice, multi-coloured and oscillating, arises from its ground of – as it seems – even more fragile, coarsely molten glass, from which it feeds and in turn causes it to crumble until, in the end, to vanish, – to go back to sand.
The flower-like objects of the series „Fragile Circuit“, worked in pâte de verre-technique, stand for a cycle that is fragile yet eternal just as the tides. For Mare Saare, sand is not only an artistic image for renewal and rebirth, but – in addition to ground glass – it actually serves as a technical starting material and a recyclable base in the forming process of these tender objects.
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The artist herself describes her work as follows:
“My works are often extremely fragile, open plate forms. I like to work with colours, but seldom total transparency is involved. I have tried to unite the delicate, the vulnerable and the vanishing into the form of glass by fusing coloured glass powders into moulds made of sand.”
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Her individual process of making these objects uses sand as technical aid, as mould and support material in the melting process, infinitely reusable and, therefore, the way of creating supports the idea of regeneration and eternity. The base of the objects is cast in glass, the calyx is made of fused crushed glass in pâte de verre-technique.
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The artist is, amongst others, also known for delicate engraved objects, as well as an engraving teacher in the Bild-Werk Frauenau Academy of 2008. Factually, she is in her individual way at home in practically all glass techniques. As a guest of the Eisch “Artist in Residence” program she was able to utilise the whole range of working possibilities of the Eisch glass factory, from painting and etching up to working with the glass blowers. In this way, within four weeks, the objects were made, which together with recent work from her Tallinn studio can be seen in the Eisch-Atelier Gallery in Frauenau until November 7, 2009.
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At the Eisch Factory Mare Saare also worked with engraving and painting, as well as in the big, no longer used etching and acid polishing room of the factory, with the technique of etching. Creatively using “found” materials and production materials of the Eisch Factory, - like old crushed glass and glass moulds, for totally new and individual glass works, the artist worked with the etching bath and the furnace. Her beautiful flower forms – and with them totally new forms in the range of products of the Eisch Factory – the artist fused out of production residuals.
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Since 1994 Mare Saare has been working with black glass, which is only produced in Bryansk in Russia, making plates out of it. Hereby, her artistic intention is to express elementary insights and feelings in glass. So, the black plates shall embody the omnipresent chaos. For the artist, the way to the raw material and the making are likewise part of the work of art. She travels the world and tells us about her impressions in her objects: Sand with its association with the seaside, or the Sahara is the essential material for her flower forms; the night sky of the African desert could have been the inspiration for the black plates. Travelling seems to be a central subject in Saare’s life. The desire to explore foreign regions grew as travelling was quite difficult during the Soviet time. Also part of her current journey, her personal “Passage”, is her residency in Frauenau: Mare covered a distance of 2000 km on her way from Talinn to Frauenau in her car.
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Within the “Artist in Residence” program Klaus Bock has made a film about the making of some objects by Mare Saare. This film is shown in the exhibition and provides interesting insights in the practice and techniques of the artist.
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| The exhibition is accompanied by a small catalogue. |
| Elisabeth Zizlsperger
Galerie am Museum - Eisch Atelier
Grafenauer Str. 8
D-94258 Frauenau
Tel.: +49 (0)9926-180868
email: info@eisch.de |
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