Generation BIEM/ZAIKS
Andreas Trossek (1-2/2011)
Andreas Trossek writes what he thinks of Mihkel Kleis’ solo exhibition Guts’n’Roses
Among contemporary Estonian artists, Mihkel Kleis has been perhaps most successful in combining the 20th century Western rock culture with the historical building blocks of 20th century Pop Art. Kleis is above all an artist-musician, although he graduated from an art university. In this context his recent exhibition of paintings, Guts’n Roses, is clearly the artist’s tour de force, especially as Hobusepea Gallery also hosted a performance of his musical project Edasi. Apparently it is still important to that we are talking about an artist who is not a ‘real’ painter, and an experimental musician who has still ‘merely’ graduated from a department of textile design.
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