Neljapäeval, 10. juulil kell 17 avati galeriis Pallas Rauno Thomas Mossi isikunäitus „Kohad pole kellegi omad. Vol. 2.“, kus kunstnik esitleb viimase aja loomingut suureformaadiliste abstraktsete kompositsioonidega. Ühtlasi on tegemist teise osaga 2024. aastal Õiguskantsleri büroos toimunud väljapanekust, kus publikuni jõudis suurem osa ka nüüd Tartus eksponeeritavast.
Näituse inspiratsioon on välja arenenud aastate jooksul kunstitudengitele õppetööna antud värviõpetuse teooriast ja praktikast ning reisidel kogetud emotsioonidest. Kunstnikku huvitavad värvi ekspressiivsed omadused, simultaankontrastid, harmooniad ja neist tekkiv lüürika. Kompositsioonid ehituvad erinevatele värvipindadele, nende suurusele ja jaotusele pildipinnal.
Rauno Thomas Moss on teadlikult kasutanud elemente orfismist, suprematismist, futurismist, geomeetrilisest abstraktsionismist, konstruktivismist ja Bauhausist. Kuigi mõned neist on programmiliselt vastanduvad, ühinetakse siin harmooniliselt. Semiootikuna on kunstnikul vahendeiks värvikeel ja -sümboolika, kujundite ja vormide tähendused ning samaski süntaksi kaotamine ja sellega mängimine. Autor on juhindunud kõikehaaravast intuitsioonist.
Esitatakse ka must-valgeid maale, mis kontseptsioonilt on justkui anti-maal, kui süntaksi kaotanud tekst, mille läbi semiootikust maalikunstnik saab rõhutada omi seisukohti.
Näituse kujundaja Viktor Kiss.
Rauno Thomas Moss (1977) on Tartus resideeruv eesti maalikunstnik ja graafiline disainer, semiootik ja Pallase õppejõud. 1993. aastal alustas Moss õpinguid Tartu Kunstikoolis skulptuuri erialal, läks üle kunstilise kujundamisse ja maali, mille lõpetas 1998. Järgnesid õpingud Tartu Ülikooli filosoofiateaduskonna kunstide osakonnas prof. Jaan Elkeni juhendamisel ning semiootika ja kulturoloogia erialal professorite Peeter Toropi ja Mihhail Lotmani käe all. Tartu Ülikooli kultuuriteaduste ja kunstide instituudis on Moss töötanud joonistamise, plastilise anatoomia ja üldkompositsiooni ainete lektorina. Rauno Thomas Moss on Eesti Kunstnike Liidu liige aastast 2008.
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On Thursday, 10 July at 5 p.m., the solo exhibition “Places Belong to No One. Vol. 2” by Rauno Thomas Moss opened at Gallery Pallas. The artist presents his recent work in large-format abstract compositions. The exhibition is the second instalment of a series, the first of which was displayed in 2024 at the Office of the Chancellor of Justice. Much of that earlier body of work is now being exhibited in Tartu.
The exhibition draws inspiration from years of teaching colour theory and practice to art students, as well as from emotional impressions gathered during the artist’s travels. Moss explores the expressive qualities of colour, simultaneous contrasts, harmonies, and the lyricism that emerges from them. His compositions are constructed from planes of colour, with attention to their size and distribution across the pictorial surface.
Rauno Thomas Moss deliberately incorporates elements from orphism, suprematism, futurism, geometric abstraction, constructivism, and the Bauhaus. Although some of these movements are ideologically opposed, they are here brought into harmonious dialogue. As a semiotician, the artist draws upon the language and symbolism of colour, the meanings of shapes and forms, and also engages in syntactic deconstruction and playful manipulation. His guiding principle is an all-encompassing intuition.
The exhibition also features black-and white paintings that serve, conceptually, as anti-paintings—texts without syntax—through which the artist, as a painter-semiotician, articulates his own critical positions.
Exhibition design by Viktor Kiss.
Rauno Thomas Moss (1977) is a painter and graphic designer based in Tartu, Estonia, as well as a semiotician and lecturer at Pallas University of Applied Sciences. He began his studies in sculpture at Tartu Art School in 1993, later shifting to artistic design and painting, graduating in 1998. He continued his education at the University of Tartu’s Faculty of Philosophy, studying in the Department of Fine Arts under Professor Jaan Elken, and specialising in semiotics and cultural studies under Professors Peeter Torop and Mihhail Lotman. Moss has lectured on drawing, plastic anatomy, and composition at the University of Tartu’s Institute of Cultural Research and Arts. Since 2008, Rauno Thomas Moss has been a member of the Estonian Artists’ Association.