08/07/2018 Severine Grosjean
We live in a world full of colors. Color is a very vast, rich, complex and highly multidisciplinary subject.
Kristi Kongi is a young Estonian artist known for her sweetened atmosphere. Her work focuses on color, light and space, often in paintings that take the form of installations and creations of specific environments.
Her latest work is about the appropriation of colors in the City of Mexico. From the street to the brick facade, bright colors are part of daily life. Kristi captures the walls of a city. She has made a photographic inventory of the colorful urban sites of the city and its neighborhoods. The photographs became the main starting point to create the work.
While wandering in a taxi through the city with a camera, the artist tried to photograph each moment and its different changes of light and shadows. The representation of the space evolves throughout the hours of the day. New color systems were created. Kristi Kongi develops an aesthetic, social and cultural aspect in the walls of the city.
The artist captures the colors in her surroundings transposed to oil on canvas. The constant movement of the city is felt in the fuzzy abstraction painted. The details disappear to leave the main color of this work. This flow of colors is contemplated. The city of Mexico is a nature in Technicolor.
Each painting refers to a specific place. Kristi Kongi tells a story in each of her works and continues to do it in Mexico. She explores a specific narrative, a single story connected in depth with a particular place. She looks for new combinations, new fragments in your fantastic world.
Everything started with her project “Transformer” in 2010. She used a table, in which she put things, as the base of the installation. It is a wide variety of objects. The function was not essential, only the color. It is the aspect of the superposition: things are placed one on top of the other.
Often, Kristi makes conventional paintings before offering the viewer a space with greater effect.
In her installations such as “There is silence between the trees” (2014) or “Have you seen yourself” (2016), the artist creates a careful construction in which she builds a bridge between color and architecture and the relationship of people with the spaces. Her rainbow installations are a visual and sensitive representation of light. A playful experience is created in which a colorful labyrinth is observed from any point.
Each exhibition of Kristi Kongi is a staging to produce new combinations and dialogues. Each painting has space. The pictural world of the young Estonian artist has an infinity of colors, all more intense than the other. A chromatic country by excellence, that illuminates the view.
Partnership: The Nomad Creative Projects
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