On February 23, the “White Hall” exhibition of the painter and scenographer Andras Kalinins will open its doors in the contemporary art hall “TUR_telpa” on the block of Tallinn street.
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As “Delfi” informs the creators of the exhibition, it will be the second consecutive exhibition in the “TUR_telpas” winter exhibition cycle “From the light” and will offer newly created paintings inspired by the artist’s interest in museology and the materiality of painting in its various aspects. Using the entire “TUR_space” as an art installation, Kalinin has placed his paintings in the framework of an abstracted art history museum space and allows himself to playfully play with the way European museums are structured and the art trends exhibited in them. During his visits to prominent European art museums, Kalinin has always been particularly interested in the impressive spaces dedicated to painting. These halls, as temples for color and the painting process, left a great impression on the artist. For his regular solo exhibition, he has created an installation of paintings that equally refers to museological themes and art trends in the rhythm of history. Kalinin especially highlights the dividing line between the time before and after the Enlightenment – between the eras when the divine, as the only source of light, hides the uncovered potential of the Enlightenment with its radiance, when light transforms into a multifaceted reality, technologically and scientifically described by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Isaac Newton. In the “White Hall”, Kalinin uses the opportunity to consider the effects of light, color, reflection and absorption simultaneously in a hyperreal and abstract context, parallel to the exhibition of paintings.
Andras Kalinin’s painting can be described as the embodiment of its physicality. The English terms “color” and “paint” clearly distinguish the meanings, which in Latvian are combined in one word – “krāsa”. Kalinin’s method is to let the hand be guided by the color itself, depending on its specific transparency, thickness, gloss, color fastness and name. The form of the painting is thus reduced to the level where the message is entrusted to the qualities of the paint. In this way, the artist bypasses direct interpretation, leaving this task to the interplay of the size of the canvases and their spatial arrangement.
Andris Kaļinins studied at the Latvian College of Culture and the Scenography Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts. In 2022, he was included among the finalists of the 14th Baltic Young Painter Award. Last year, the artist had personal exhibitions at the Jurmala Museum (“Kalinina’s Oil Painting”) and the Balvu County Museum (“Still nature is not nature, but it is”). Also participated in several group exhibitions, including “Arsenal”, Kalnciema
in the quarter gallery, Rihards Wagner House in Riga. As a scenographer and costume designer, he has created the visual image of performances in the Valmiera Theatre, the Latvian National Theatre, the Dailes Theatre, as well as in independent theater projects.
