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Open Doors Day / Tamar Lewinsohn & Anastasios Veloudis

Sunday, September 22, 2019
3 pm – 6 pm Open Doors Day at the Copper Leg Art Residency
4 pm Opening of the exhibition by Tamar Lewinsohn & Anastasios Veloudis.

You are welcome to visit the Copper Leg Art Residency this Sunday and open our new residents’ exhibition at Rae Schoolhouse.

Tamar Lewinsohn (ISR)
Tamar is an Israeli artist who focuses on photography as her primary medium.

Her work explores the manual aspects within the photographic medium and the relationship between photography, printmaking and drawing.

Tamar is currently working on an ongoing photographic project “NOTHING IS TEMPORARY” during her residency at Copper Leg. This project explores the basic elements of photography in search of poetic meaning and potential.

The paper and print are heavily concerned as an integral part of the work. She is interested in finding new ways of exploring the printmaking process in the darkroom which will emphasize the unique aspect of a singular copy within the photographic medium.

https://www.tamarlewinsohn.com/

Anastasios Veloudis (GRC/GBR)
Anastasios Veloudis is an Greek origin interdisciplinary designer and visual artist working and living in London. He studied fine arts, structural engineer design, graphic design and received his master’s degree in digital media arts from the University of Brighton.

His art practice has been constantly drawn towards abstraction and non-literal, metaphoric forms working with a variety of tools, from acrylic and paper collage to photography and video. Duality is ever-present in his work – combining dynamic geometrical shapes with organic free-flowing forms as a result of action painting.

During the Copper Leg Residency, he is exploring the potentials of found and discarded materials from around the area with which he is intended to create a new visual narrative. The creative process is a perpetual effort to take advantage of any spontaneous, irrational outcome arising from his practice in order to transmute it to a source of inspiration.

www.veloudis.net

See you on Sunday!

Supporter: Tanker Brewery
Event location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2
Public transport: https://goo.gl/maps/gshzx8HHKevFocxB9
Website: https://copperleg.rae.ee/

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Open Doors Day / Takashi Ikezawa + Jarek Lustych

Sunday, August 18, 2019
19:00 – 21:00 Open Doors Day at Copper Leg Art Residence + Takashi Ikezawa & Jarek Lustych art objects presentation.

Two new artists in our art residency have been working hard and now we invite you to participate in the opening of their art objects on this Sunday at 19:00.

Also visitors can see in the vicinity of Rae School House the installations and outdoor objects from the previous artists in residency, Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza (ITA), Shishkin – Hokusai (RUS), Tanel Saar & Art Container (EST), Simon Whetham (GBR), Alexander Kamelhair (USA), Chad Stayrook (USA), Noolegrupp (EST).

Takashi Ikezawa
Takashi started as a copperplate engraver and printmaker. He lives in the suburbs of Tokyo and has been working as the director of the Tsukuba Art Center since 2013. He was a victim of 2011.11.3 Fukushima and was born between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb memorial days. Therefore, he has had a desire for human peace since childhood.

In recent years, he has worked on many outdoor installations, creating works on the theme of nature and symbiosis. At Copper Leg Art Residency, he is creating an art piece titled “Mind Arrow”. This work is inspired by the Japanese archery target. A traditional Japanese archery target made from charcoal is centered around the flagpole, the flag reproducing the target of Japanese archery. It represents Mother Earth and Father Sky. An arrow has been released from Father Sky.

Tsukuba Art Center: https://www.tsukuba-art-center.com/

Jarek Lustych
Jarek is a Polish visual artist who for the past twenty years has been creating mostly for and with specific sites. However, amid a hailstorm of global unbridled production, he is embarrassed to add any new objects to this excess. His work usually explores existing entities, sharing authorship with them. They are not just a background, but they become an active component of a piece of art. By using their unique properties, his projects aim to manifest imperceptible aspects of the environment.

At Copper Leg Art Residency, he is acting as a curator for nonhuman entities. Jarek has prepared an instrument to evoke the voice of Pirita river, believing that by having its own song the river is a subject with rights and that this awareness makes it difficult to use violence against it – hence towards nature in general.

Artist web page: http://www.lustych.art.pl

See you on Sunday!

Supporters: Lipuvabrik OÜ, Tanker
Event location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/912661162403311

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Opening of the summer season / Arrowgroup installation “Passthrough”

Saturday 15.06

18:00 – 22:00 Opening of the summer season at Copper Leg Art Residency.

Copper Leg Art Residency opens summer season! Starting with an art tour, where visitors can see installations and outdoor objects in the vicinity of Rae School House.

Works to be presented from the following artists:
Kilian Ochs (EST / DEU)
Janno Bergmann (EST)
Vladimir Kozin (RUS)
Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza (ITA)
Shishkin – Hokusai (RUS)
Tanel Saar (EST)
Simon Whetham (GBR)
Alexander Kamelhair (USA)
Chad Stayrook (USA)

The art tour is followed by a presentation of the Arrowgroup installations outside and inside the Rae Schoolhouse.
The art tour is followed by –> Arrowgroup installations presentations outdoors and inside the Rae Schoolhouse.

–> Arrowgroup (founded in 2004) includes Triinu Jürves and Villem Jahu, who mostly prefer a site-specific interactive approach, layered references, and displaced image language.

At the Copper Leg Land Art Center was set up the installation “Passthrough”, that binds together the local name magic here, the underground cemetery from the beginning of the second millennium, the paganist world perception and the theory of relativity. In the schoolhouse, the same experience is visualized on another scale by the installation object displayed only on the opening night.

More information about –> Arrowgroup: noolegrupp.blogspot.com

The evening ends with a public sauna and vinyl listening.
Everyone is welcome!

Event location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2
Website: https://copperleg.rae.ee
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/279021132900792/

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Lens-based memory soup.

It is time to introduce the next artist at Copper Leg Art Residency. Allison Roberts is a photo artist and art teacher from the United States, born in Oklahoma. She has earned an advanced degree in art at the University of Wisconsin and enriched herself in several other universities in her home country.

Allison calls her creative method a lens-based art, since in most of her images, in addition to the photo camera, she also uses video or photo projections. A significant part of her practice is site-specific, mixing the interior and exterior architecture, the spaces and surroundings of daily life, and the natural environment. By melting together the physical and digital space, she is creating compositions of new fragmented reality, where things are familiar and at the same time unfamiliar. Through this controversy and slightly irritating uncertainty, the viewer is left to wonder about the credibility of perception and the interpretation of apparent reality. Allison explores memory, the distortions of memory and the discomfort of uncertainty impacting the present.

On this Saturday, October 20th. starting from 17.00, the video installation and photo series of Allison Roberts will be shown at Copper Leg Residency. You are welcomed to greet the artist and discover her creations.

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/292913197980774
Artist Homepage: http://www.allisonaroberts.com

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Open Doors Day / Anne Ferguson & Allison Roberts

Saturday 20.10
15:30 – 18:30 Open Doors Day at Copper Leg Art Residency

Anne Ferguson
16:00 Printmaking installation

Allison Roberts
17:00 Video installation & photos

Saturday, October 20th
From 15:30 – 18:30, guests can explore the residency space. There are two new residents, printmaker Anne Ferguson from Germany and photo artist Allison Roberts from the United States. At 16:00 we will open the printmaking installation of Anne Ferguson and at 17:00 we will continue the presentation of Allison Roberts video installation and photos.

In addition, it is still possible to see the dry-point prints of Nina Jørgensen, inspired by Vaskjala’s landscapes. And if the weather is on our side, we will also carry out a traditional art tour, where we will introduce the works of the of past Copper Leg Residency artists including outdoor objects from the members of Art Container (Kilian Ochs, Tanel Saar, Janno Bergmann), Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza and Shiskin – Hokusai, Simon Whetham, Chad Stayrook.
Everyone is welcome to Rae School House (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskja village, Rae parish) on Saturday 20.10.2018

http://copperleg.rae.ee
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2
Supporter: Rae Parish & Rae Cultural Center.

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Houston, we have a problem …

Beware, there is a space cowboy on Wormhole road! The good news is that he is not hostile, on the contrary, he is very friendly and peaceful. His name is Chad Stayrook and he’s from New York. Chad is an installation artist and a science fiction fan. In his art, he mostly deals with cosmic topics using drawings, videos, and installation.  In addition to this, Chad co-directs the artist-run gallery, “Present Company”, in Brooklyn.

That said, if you now have the desire to see the far side of the Moon and to talk about space topics with the artist, then you are welcome tomorrow, Saturday, August 18 from 17:00 to 20:00 to the Open Doors Day of the Copper Leg Residency, at the Rae schoolhouse on Wormhole road.

Artist webpage: https://www.chadstayrook.com

Gallery Present Company: https://www.present-co.com

Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/259155561363385

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Open Doors Day / Chad Stayrook art piece presentation

Saturday 18.08
17:00 – 20:00 Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency

Chad Stayrook
18:00 Video screenings
19:00 Presentation of artwork

Saturday, August 18th
From 17:00 – 20:00, guests can explore the residency space & its doings, including the work of our current artist in residence, Chad Stayrook. At 18:00, Chad will screen a series of short films and at 19:00 he will unveil his new installation built during his time in residence and installed in the Rae Schoolhouse courtyard. Chad Stayrook is an American installation artist living and working in New York.

Also on view will be works of past Copper Leg Residency artists including: outside objects from the members of Art Container (Kilian Ochs, Tanel Saar, Janno Bergmann), Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza, Shiskin – Hokusai, Simon Whetham.

Everyone is welcome to Rae School House (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskja village, Rae parish) on Saturday 18.08.2018

The keyword is “Moon landing”!

http://copperleg.rae.ee
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2

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Windchasers on Wormhole road …

It is said that each end is a new beginning. So, a new start will happen with the piano which was destined for disposal. It has been waiting for its moment in the Copper Leg Residency garage throughout the long winter. This hardworking but tired musical instrument will be brought into focus with the help of our new resident, sound artist Simon Whetham from Bristol, England. The focus of his work is to open and to make heard the sound potentials which are existing in the room or in the environment, through a performative presentation or through an installation activity.

Simon has worked extensively in international cooperation with dancers, musicians, visual and video artists. In addition, he has published his musical compositions on various sound media and has previously participated in the Mooste Guest Studio (MoKS) program in Estonia. In general, his lifestyle is a progression from one residency to another and this has been going on for 7 years now.

So, if you are getting tired of life around the football World Cup, it’s time to get some fresh air and come on Saturday 07.07 from 15:00 – 18:00 to the Open Doors Day of the Copper Leg Art Residency, where you can meet with Simon Whetham and his creations.
If the weather allows enough sun and/or wind, then the piano can certainly be heard making sounds. In any case, the artist will finish the day with a sound experience.

Event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/462692057485519/
Location: https://goo.gl/maps/iqo3zu7Xmuj
Simon Whetham website: www.simonwhetham.co.uk
Bandcamp: https://simonwhetham.bandcamp.com/music

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Open Doors Day / Simon Whetham art piece presentation

Saturday 07.07
15:00 – 18:00
Open Doors Day in Copper Leg Art Residency

Simon Whetham
16:00 Presentation of artwork
17:30 Sound performance

Saturday 7th July
From 15:30 to 18:00, guests can explore residency space & its doings. At 16:00 we will open a new installation at the Rae Schoolhouse courtyard, by author Simon Whetham, a sound artist in our residency from Bristol, England. In addition, you can see the works of other authors who have been in the Copper Leg Residency. Outside objects from the members of the Art Container (Kilian Ochs, Tanel Saar, Janno Bergmann), Federica Cogliandro & Giulia Lanza and Shiskin – Hokusai. Open Doors Day will conclude with Simon Whetham’s sound performance from 17:30 to 18:00 at Rae Schoolhouse.
Everyone is welcome to Rae School House (Ussiaugu tee, Vaskja village, Rae parish) on Saturday 07.07.2018

The keyword is “Jamie Oliver”!

http://copperleg.rae.ee

Location: https://goo.gl/maps/6dGAE3mzerP2