Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste at HOP Gallery

EXHIBITION OPENING 17th MAY at 18:00

The performative installation An Owl Screamed and the Samovar Hummed Without Stopping sounds morelike an existential-dystopian comedy by genre. Artists have begun from where Anton Chekhov put an end to his last play, The Cherry Orchard, and imagine a hypothetical fifth act for the play.

SECOND ACT (excerpt)

[A pause.]

FIERS. Before the misfortune the same thing happened. An owl screamed and the samovar hummed without stopping.
GAEV. Before what misfortune?
FIERS. Before the Emancipation.
[A pause.]

Urmas Lüüs and Hans-Otto Ojaste have been working in tandem since 2010. They both graduated from the blacksmithing speciality at the Estonian Academy of Arts and have jointly created exhibitions, performances and experimental music. Since 2014, they have been running the Süvariik (Deep State) studio on Hobusepea Street in Tallinn.

This exhibition is part of a satellite program of the Biotoopia festival.
Supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, EKKM Estonian Contemporary Art Museum and the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Exhibition is open from 11th May to 30th May

HOP Gallery, Hobusepea street 2, Tallinn

Every day 11:00-18:00

Info:
Urmas Lüüs
urmas.lyys@artun.ee
+372 53843139