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Priit Pajos
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Biography
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Born in 1971, Estonia
1998 Tartu University Departement of Arts, Estonia
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Statement
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Text from http://www.einst.ee/Ea/1_02/komissarov.html
Pajos's painting is characterised by narrow, impenetrable dark space and brownish colours, which would be well suited for a trap or for enacting a tragedy. The spectator feels deep anxiety and uneasiness. The people in the picture are in shock or in a state of affect; they meet fantastical beings, or become free of their causal relations. The artist shows the vision of an individual, picturing a universal all-embracing experience, and complementing the traditional opposition of the sensual/intellectual with brutal intonations of morbidity, bestiality and prurience. Religious motifs are important for the artist, and although Pajos stands outside of established religions, we see from the rhetoric of his paintings that he is well aware of them. The depiction of death and the violence of death occupy a central position in his work; it is further developed into a breaking of taboos and defiling of sacredness. In the painting Hauaruvetaja (A Grave Desecrator), grief develops into the denial of the violence of death. The man who urinates on a grave is painted as a deeply tragic person, offering, as a father figure, a number of ways of interpretation. Pajos's method of constructing allegorical discourse upon hallucinations, and his use of affect, make his work a precedent in which fantasy is tightly interwoven with problems of psychoanalysis.....
Eha Komissarov
art expert of the Vaal Gallery, curator at the Estonian Art Museum
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Exhibitions
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(Selected)
1999-2001 Review-exhibition of Estonian painters in Tallinn Vaal
Gallery, Rotermanni Salt-Storage and Tallinn Arthouse
1999 exhibition "KC" with Kaarel Vulla in Tartu Arthouse
2000-2001 International nude-art exhibition "Man and Woman" in Parnu
Chaplin Center
2002 the curator-exhibition of Jaan Toomik and Paul Rodgers in Tallinn
Arthouse
2002 artists from Tartu in Tampere Finland
2003 the curator-project of Priit Pajos "Shadowside" in Tartu Arthouse
2003 Project "SHADOWSIDE 2" in Tallinn Vaal Gallery
2003 the common-exhibition of fiend-towns in Grenaa Danmark
2003 Biennale in Vasby Konsthalle, Sweden
1998 Personal exhibition in Tartu Obu Gallery
1999 Personal exhibition in Paide Castle of Vallitorn
2001 Personal exhibition in Vaal Gallery
2001 Personal exhibition in Library of Tartu University
2003 Personal exhibition in Tyri Culturehouse
COMING PROJECTS:
4th of March until 28th of March 2004 personal exhibition in gallery of Turku Artists Union JUST, Finland
Vanha Raatihuone (the Old Town Hall)
Vanha Suurtori 5
20500 Turku
June 2004 Personal exhibition in Tallinn Vaal Gallery
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Next Artist: Zeljko Karaula
