1987– · Estonian artist (born 1987) Eesti Kunstimuuseum; Tütar galerii
õppinud: Estonian Academy of Arts
“Urmas Lüüs is an Estonian artist working in the fields of jewellery, sculpture, installation, writing, music and theatre.” That’s the short explanation on the artist’s website. Embroidery, video and photography can be added to the list of permanent media with which he is familiar. Lüüs’s diverse artistic practice is based on a material mystery physically embedded in everyday objects, often beginning with an obsessive process of accumulation. For example, his last solo exhibition at the Tütar Gallery in 2023 was based on over 7,000 photographs taken in cemeteries. The exhibition
As an artist on the theoretical horizon of neo-materialism, Lüüs inverts the most important principle of conceptualism, which states that “thought should be more intense than the force of its embodiment”
. The credo of Lüüs is reflected in the belief that the artistic text is kept in operation by the energy of the personal poetic manipulation of the material. At the most general level, this implies a conscious opposition to the dominant patterns of behaviour of both the industrial production society and the service-based information society. The medium/genre dialogues that characterise Lüüs derive from the arsenal of practical craftsmanship of the applied artist. The system is based on the eloquence of a seemingly useless decorative gesture.
As an artist, Lüüs has an uncanny enduring relationship with the aesthetic of saturated poverty. In his case, it ranges from the imagery of religious kitsch in Catholic cemeteries to dusty souvenir horns on the walls of hunting lodges; and from tasteless nature images made from amber shards to Richelieu embroidery. His relationship with these object worlds, picked up from the peripheries of our aesthetic focus, is anything but nostalgic-sentimental camp. It is characterised by the retroactive excitement of the lived-through, collected and piled-up material into grotesque images and witty stories. (inglise keeles)
23 pildiga teost; siin esimesed 23, kõik kataloogis. Pilte näidatakse ainult autoriõiguse alt vabade teoste ja galeriides müügil olevate teoste kohta, hoidjate endi serveritest.
Muuseumikirjed MuISist ja EKM digikogust; galeriide laoseis galeriide endi kataloogidest; oksjonitulemused nii, nagu Haus Galerii, Vernissage, Allee galerii, Vaal galerii, E-Kunstisalong ja Eesti Kunsti Oksjonid need avaldasid. Kogu kataloog
Kipsist pea seeriast “Härra N-i elu ja surm. Urmas Lüüsi kodanlikud ruumid”
Pealuuga mask
Mask
Haamer
Käärid
Kirves
Küünlajalg
Näpitsad
Peegel
Süda
Kirvepea
Kett
Raam
Sepistatud objekt
Raamid
Toos
Sepistatud objektid
Pitsid
Rangid seeriast “Härra N-i elu ja surm. Urmas Lüüsi kodanlikud ruumid”
Raam seeriast “Härra N-i elu ja surm. Urmas Lüüsi kodanlikud ruumid”
Keraamiline teos seeriast “Härra N-i elu ja surm. Urmas Lüüsi kodanlikud ruumid”
Sõrm seeriast “Kes aias, kes aias?”
Mask (2021–2023)