Sirje Protsin-Petersen
Biography
Sirje Protsin, born in 1959 in Tartu, Estonia, is an artist with a strong sense of the picturesque. Her self-confident and unconstrained style of painting gives away vast experience as a painter rooted in the historical Estonian Pallas school of painting from the beginning of the 20th century. Sirje Protsin-Petersen’s paintings have been on display in several solo and group exhibitions in Estonia as well as in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Russia, Sweden and even on the island of Mauritius.
Searching for inspiration in nature and the world around us the creative work of Sirje Protsin-Petersen is largely autobiographical, depicting a Woman who is searching for her place and finds in constantly changing. At the exhibition the artist displays her latest figure paintings where emotion and perception hold a prominent place.
The artist herself has described her paintings as follows: “States of mind are reflected in the given moment, crawling closer to reality from beneath the layer of paint. The uncovered, undisguised human nature manifests its internal beauty. The human character that guides our fate is revealed to the viewer. The world is happening.”
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SELECTED 02/04/2012
Tartu Art College and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences
joint exhibition SELECTED Gallery Aula at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno, Czech Republic
28. March-28. April 2012
A group of Estonian and Finnish artistst-lecturers from Tartu Art College and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences takes part in the joint exhibition. The long-term relations of cooperation between the two schools have also resulted in strong bonds of friendship between the artists. We wish to value the role of fine arts in society, underlining the importance of fine arts as a medium that functions over language barriers. The role of art-culture and art-studies in a society needs to be proven constantly. On the other hand, traditional fields of art such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, stained glass and tapestry have become marginal. These fields do not exist in a traditional way in many European higher education establishments of art, because the aims and the content of art studies are not standardized. The aim of the exhibition is also to create new networks of art teachers. Creative fields based on cultural traditions carry the coherence that enables us to create visual creation able to function in contemporary society.
Sirje Petersen, Aet Ollisaar, Erika Pedak, Heli Tuksam, Jaan Luik, Tuuli Puhvel, Kadri Toom, Juhani Järvinen, Sofia Wilkman
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