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Reedel, 16. mail kell 17.00 avatakse Tartu Kunstimaja väikeses saalis Ove Maidla isikunäitus „Soovide täitumine enne rukki õitsemist“.
Näitusel esitleb Ove Maidla oma kõige uuemaid fotogravüüre, mis on valminud aastatel 2024–2025.
Kunstnik on pöördunud tagasi fotograafia algusaegade tehnikate juurde, osaledes paratamatult vanas võitluses fotograafia õiguse eest olla kõrgkunsti meedium – olla graafika, olla maaliline. Selleks tuleb fotomeediumi vahetu dokumentaalsus ja kujutise teravus ületada. Tema trükid tõestavad, et reportaaž võib muutuda pastoraaliks niipea, kui fotolt kaob teravus.
Maidla lähtub oma töödes põhimõttest, et fotograafia on alati tahtnud saada jooneks. Foto, olgu see siis hõbedasoolade või pikslite kogum, tuleb venitada joonte rägastikuks. Võib-olla ongi see alateadlik kinnisidee põhjuseks, miks tema töödes korduvad oksarägastikud ja unarusse jäänud tagahoovid – paigad, kust on kadunud hoolsa peremehe mõõdetud sirgjoonelisus, kus taimestik voolab vabalt ja hooned hargnevad orgaaniliselt.
Ove Maidla (s. 1959) on vabakutseline kunstnik ja fotograaf, kes on varem pikalt töötanud pressifotograafi ja operaatorina. Tema broomõlitehnikas teostatud fotode valik on ilmunud autorikogumikus Broomõlitrükid. Koos Enriko Talvistuga on ta olnud mitme Tartu linnaruumi dokumenteeriva albumi kaasautor. Ove Maidla on osalenud paarikümnel personaalnäitustel, võitnud mitmeid auhindu nii fotokunstniku kui pressifotograafina. Tartu Kunstimajas on Maidla varem esinenud näitusega „Fotogravüürid” (2015) ning linoollõiketehnikas graafikanäitusega „Mõtete sünni viimse jonni kevadel” (2020).
Näitust toetavad Eesti Kultuurkapital ja Tartu Kultuurkapital.
Näitus jääb avatuks 15. juunini.
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On Friday, 16 May at 5:00 p.m., Ove Maidla will open his solo exhibition “Dreams Come True Before the Rye Blooms” in the small gallery of the Tartu Art House.
In the exhibition, Ove Maidla presents his most recent photogravures, made in 2024 and 2025.
The artist has returned to the techniques of the early days of photography, intentionally taking part in the old struggle for photography's right to be a high art medium: to be both graphic and painterly. To do so, the immediate documentary nature of the photographic medium and the sharpness of the image must be overcome. His prints prove that reportage can become pastoral once the sharpness of the photograph is abandoned.
Maidla's work is based on the principle that photography has always wanted to become lines. A photograph, whether a collection of silver salts or a set of pixels, must be stretched into a maze of lines. Perhaps it is this unconscious obsession that causes the recurrence in his work of branch ridges and neglected backyards: places where the measured rectilinearity of the careful host has disappeared, where vegetation flows freely and were buildings branch organically.
Ove Maidla (b. 1959) is a freelance artist and photographer who has previously worked as a press photographer and cameraman. A selection of his photographs in broom oil have been published in the author's collection “Broom Oil Prints”. Together with Enriko Talvistu, he has co-authored several albums documenting Tartu's urban space. Ove Maidla has taken part in a couple of dozen solo exhibitions and has won several awards as a photographer and press photographer. Maidla has previously exhibited at Tartu Art House with his exhibition “Photogravures” (2015) and his lino-cut printmaking exhibition “Spring of the Last Thunders of the Birth of Thoughts” (2020).
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia and the Cultural Endowment of Tartu.
The exhibition will be open until 15 June.
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