PARADISE
REGAINED
TANEL
VEENRE
21ST
MAY- 18TH JUNE 2011
OPENING SATURDAY 21ST MAY 16-19
There are moments when one experiences a feeling of exceptional clarity.
Everything instantly seems possible and, for a time, all the threads
of doubt weave together to form an invincible rope of conviction, able
to carry even the heaviest of burdens. The entire world and every single
universe combined can be fastened to that rope.
That is Paradise regained.
Platina
welcomes Tanel Veenre to his first soloexhibition, Paradise regained,
in the gallery. The exhibition has previously been shown in Tallin (Gallery
Marz) and in Munich (Historische Baumaterialien).
Tanel Veenre
was born into an art and music loving family. His city grandfather played
piano in cafes and accordion at home, his other grandfather from Põlva
County played the Estonian zither. His father and brother are violinists.
But Tanel Veenre didn't become a musician eventhough the music plays
a roll in his works. Instead, he found a path that his mother would
have perhaps chosen if life had been different- to create visual art.
He decided to enrol in the jewellery programme at the Academy of Arts.
These studies led him to Kadri Mälk, who taught him to see the
big picture - the biggest picture.
With that
in mind Tanel Veenre has developed a very personal style, not like any
other. To wear his jewellery is to step into another world in which
reality is erased and becomes a dreamy landscape. His collection of
jewellery is like a collection of poems. No wonder he got great success
worldwide.
Jewellery
is crystallized poetry, a precious, compact genre with a finelyhoned
vocabulary of patterns. Spare but taut. Art requires to be oneeis own
storyteller.
Jewellery is a triumph of the imagination; the world of two people -
the artist and the spectator - that has congealed, for an instant, into
one. -Tanel Veenre
Tanel Veenre
lives and works in Estonia as a freelance jewellery artist. He has also
worked as a fashion and advertisement photographer, fashion editor of
"Eesti Ekspress", editor-in-chief of cultural magazine "Muusa"
and cultural editor of "Eesti Päevaleht". Tanel Veenre
is working since 2005 as a teacher in Estonian Academy of Arts.