Book launch/artist talk at WIELS, Brussels: Authors Paul Kuimet and Gregor Taul in conversation with Laura Herman

Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, Lugemik publishing and WIELS present:

BOOK LAUNCH / ARTIST TALK:
Notes on Space. Monumental Painting in Estonia 1947–2012
Authors Paul Kuimet and Gregor Taul in conversation with Laura Herman
April 20, 2018, at 4pm
WIELS Auditorium, Brussels

Join us for an afternoon artist-talk and book launch during Art Brussels. Snacks and drinks are served. The event will be free of charge and the talk will be in English.

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The revised English edition of Notes on Space, first published in Estonian in 2012, is a concise summary of the monumental paintings, supergraphics, and art realised in mosaic technique in mainly Soviet-era Estonia. An essay and short descriptions of all the 94 depicted monumental works written by art historian Gregor Taul accompany Paul Kuimet's detailed photography. The book gives an excellent overview of the art in public space in Estonia before the so-called percentage law came into force, of the Soviet-era "synthesis of the arts" and the fate of the works in the working class lunch rooms, cultural houses and apartment buildings under capitalism.

Paul Kuimet (b. 1984, EE) is a Tallinn-based artist who is currently in residence at WIELS. He works with photographic installations and 16 mm films, the subject matter of which ranges from landscapes and architecture to objects and works of art. His works often look at Modernist objects by way of highlighting their aesthetic, political and historical connotations that were perhaps hidden from the naked eye.

Gregor Taul (b. 1986, EE) is a critic and curator based in Lisbon, currently working on his doctoral thesis on late Soviet monumental decorative art at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. His main academic research topic is art in public space, in addition to monuments and murals of the Soviet era he is interested in contemporary public art commissions, especially the One Percent Act.

Laura Herman (b. 1988, BE) is an independent curator and writer whose work focuses on spatial infrastructure and the relationship between architecture, affect and human experience. Laura currently serves as a curator at La Loge, a Brussels-based space dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and theory, and she is an editor at De Witte Raaf. 

Event is organised by Center for Contemporary Arts, Estonia, WIELS, Lugemik.
Event is supported by Estonian Embassy in Brussels.