On Thursday, April 24 at 6:00 PM, a Ukrainian-language tour of the exhibition „Karin Luts. Travel Images“ will take place, led by artist Viktoria Berezina. Participation with an exhibition ticket.
The exhibition explores the significance of travel in Karin Luts’ life and art through her drawings, paintings, and diaries.
As with most of us, travel was an essential part of life for the painter and printmaker Karin Luts. It served as a form of education and creative stimulation, as well as a way of escaping the tedium of everyday life. She often stayed abroad for extended periods of time, which allowed her to immerse herself more deeply in the local milieu. In keeping with tradition, she captured her impressions in sketchbooks and sometimes even on canvas. Luts did not consider these travel images to be serious art, likening them more to the work of a photographer, with the only difference being that she did her work by hand. Yet, these numerous works, executed in a variety of media, form an important part of her body of work. She chose to depict various places, capturing her most immediate emotions. Her sketches are characterised by a humorous expressiveness, her gouaches by a romantic poise, and her watercolours of southern seas and Venetian canals by a particular delectability. Some sights stuck in the artist’s mind and later became the starting points for the creation of masterpieces.
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Photo: Madis Palm
