PRESS RELEASE

TJIKA REBANE will open her personal exhibition "Notes" at Hobusepea gallery, Wednesday at 5pm, January 19, 2005.



With this exhibition, Tjika Rebane is about to end the long journey during which she has been searching for meeting her audience year after year. Rebane used to request her audience to fill in the blanks in the unfinished sentences of her paintings, without any success - which resulted in starting with a new painting, declaring the previous one invalid. According to the artist, she has heaved herself up to the level where the meeting point could be determined also by independent individualists, the structural peculiarities being simplicity, even primitivity, and immovable conventionality, the result being the collective intersection of ancient substance possessing a great potential to grow. As strange as it might sound.



At the intersection of the roads both taken and untaken, Rebane mixes the new and the old for the last time, playing with the pun that she masters and blending meanings just like the dominos. Instead of the impenetrable and senseless blather, this will result in sadness that is deceitfully wrapped up in an optimistic package. The hands broken by despair and sadness have been invited to conjure up in front of the audience.

Everything is seemingly in perfect order, thus the walls are echoing back eulogy, honour and prize. Despite all this, the artist herself is giving up the ghost, crushed by the degradation of the surrounding world and starving.

Elin Kard