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Kirke Kangro's exhibition War and Peace in the Embassy's Gallerie

07.10.2008 - 30.11.2008

War and Peace

Kirke Kangro's exhibition in the Embassy's Gallerie, Itäinen Puistotie 10, October-November 2008.
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Kirke Kangro: I used different documentations of battles in my works. The battles are battles in themselves, not concrete, recognisable scenes of war. All of the battling men are depicted as pregnant.

- Theoretically one could make the logical assertion that the soldier or young man is the potential creator of life, the inducer of pregnancy, and therefore carries pregnancy within him, which will never be seen by anyone. In my paintings, the actual pregnancy of the men is explicated, and it shows the destruction of multiple lives with the death of every human being. Along with the men that die in battle dies a tremendous amount of potential for life.

- At the same time, actually pregnant soldiers such as these would be quite incapable of fighting, and the battles could simply not occur. If men carried and birthed children, there would be no wars.

Kirke Kangro

21.04.1975 Tallinn

2006 - Estonian Academy of Arts, MA, interdisciplinary arts

1999 -2003 EAA MA

1995-99 EAA, sculpture

Member of the Estonian Artists' Association

Selected exhibitions:

1999 "Human Formula", Riga

2000 "The Content of Form" (curator) in Tallinn

2000 "Throwaway Things" (curator) in Tallinn

2002 Installation of the light sculpture "Light in cube" in Tallinn´s Freedom Square

2003 "Living room" in Tallinn