Eduard Zentsik
Eduard Zentsik
Sillamae, Ida-Virumaa, Estonia
About Eduard Zentsik
Eduard Zentsik was born in Sillamae, Estonia. Painter, photographer, graphic artist, designer, author of installations, performances and musical improvisations. Organizer of youth exhibitions and projects. For over years of creativity had more than fifty personal exhibitions and took part in numerous joint projects. Participant and winner of international Photographic and Art competitions. Numerous works are in private collections around the world. Apart from the artist's stylistic assuredness and the embedded narratives that one might deduce from seeing bold images of Eduard Zentsik, the artist is primarily fascinated with ontological investigation. Meshed within this overriding motif is the artist's work that insists on fabulous implausibility that fills the mind with haunting hallucinatory and often visionary excesses. This work can only emerge out of a visionary understanding of the cultural context and the inner workings of the present state of the world. But it would also be accurate to say the artist's vision has a tragic undertone. And it is this undertone (in spite of the often bright coloristic applications insinuating an uncanny admixture of surreal adumbration and outsider art with Pop Art surface treatments) which gives the artist's work its edgy feel, its haunting authenticity. In this case, it is appropriate to recall that the term "outsider art" was coined by Roger Cardinal as an English synonym for art brut. The viewer will also discern through Zentsik's visual notations that the artist is concerned with the idea of mutation and metamorphosis. This is a type of writing, in the broad sense, in which the canvas is used very much as a sheet of paper as a type of mystic writing pad on which, if we are to believe Freud, is a model of the psyche. Zentsik juxtaposes different realities allowing the mind to find integration in dissimilarity, in a dramatic cathartic interchange of worlds that blend the symbolic, the real and the imaginary. The artist pits together a near claustrophobic intensity of enclosed space in which we see a great liberating conflagration of surging elements (often competing humans, animals and other creatures) struggling to assert themselves. These entities form part of and are set-off from what appear to be vast expanses of other-worldly terrain that are meant to defy human needs and desires. Through these imposing grandiloquent images Zentsik gives expressive form to the near-inchoat impulses and instincts that appear to predominate over feeling and intellect. Simultaneously, his implied scale shifts drives home the sense of sublime anguish and delight felt in the presence of some uncomprehending force greater than the sum total of human experience. Zentsik's impulses contain strains of all of the aforementioned art forms laminated onto a distinctly twenty first century feeling for emblematic effects and pictorial planes with elements of social subversiveness. It intensifies the mix of influences to produce an exhilarating series of works. Here the artist presents an inner landscape of moods and dreams, sensual intoxication, the opposite worlds of nature/culture.
Education:
1995 year – member of avant-garde artistic projects.
1996-1997 year – personal classes in art studio of Igor Lukyanov.
1998 year – accepted into the closed club of artists "April".
2000-2004 year – study at the Art Academy of Estonia.
Freelance artist since 2006 year.
Events:
UNESCO Artist's Association.
Member of the Estonian Association of Artists.
Member of the Photographers Union in Estonia.
Member of the Russian Artists Union in Estonia.
1995 year – member of avant-garde artistic projects.
1996-1997 year – personal classes in art studio of I. Lukyanov.
1998 year – accepted into the closed club of artists "April".
2000-2004 year – study at the Art Academy of Estonia.
Freelance artist since 2006 year.
2011 Author's works were included in the book of art-critic Galina Balashova "Installation
on the background of estonian landscape" about the important russian artists in Estonia.
2012 Publication of personal book about art Eduard Zentsik "My universe".
2011 The first prize in the international competition "Art Moment", St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Prize in the biggest international photo competition - Wiki loves monuments
2012 Annual premium young talented artists Kultuurkapital.
2012 annual premium young talented artists Kultuurkapital.
Seven works by the artist acquired the collection of the Pushkin Museum Preserve.
Two works are in the collection of the Museum Reserve Plyos.
The four works are in the collections of the Gallery of the Narva.
Two works in the museum’s collection of Sillamae.
One work in the collection of The Museum of New Art Pärnu, Estonia.
One work in the collection of the New York Outsider Art.
Art video are in the collection of the Pushkin Museum Preserve.
Member of the Russian Artists Union in Estonia.
Member of the Photographers Union in Estonia.
Collaboration with magazines, auction houses and galleries of Europe, USA and Russia.
Exhibitions:
2017 Art Fair London, United Kingdom
2016 Art Fair 2016 "Art Monaco Tentation", Monaco
2015 Exhibition "Hope for Love ", gallery-Steine, Vienna, Austria
2015 Biennale Arte 2015, Netherlands
2016 Exhibition "Musad" Town Gallery, Saaremaa, Estonia
2015 Exhibition "Colors for heart", Art salon Piirto, Helsinki, Finland
2015 Exhibition "Eternal Beauty" Jõhvi Kontserdimaja, Jõhvi, Estonia
2014 Exhibition "Eternal Beauty" Haus Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2014 Exhibition "The Prophecy", Narva Museum, Estonia
2014 Exhibition "The New Reality", Art Salon Piirto, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Exhibition of photography "Architecture of toy world", Narva Castel, Estonia
2013 Exhibition "Secret", Art salon Piirto, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Exhibition "Outsider Art", Artifact Gallery, New York, USA
2013 Exhibition "Riddle", Lindakivi Kultuurimaja, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Ninth prize in the biggest international photo competition - Wiki loves monuments 2012
2012 Exhibition " Eternity ", Us Art Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2012 Participation in photo exhibition "Trainspotting", Powerhouse museum, Sydney, Australia
2012 Exhibition "New antiquity", Gallery Pegazs, Riga, Latvia
2012 Participation in exhibition "Dall'Acqua Nasce l'Anima", San Nicolao Church, Bellano, Italy
2012 Exhibition " New antiquity ", Greger Gallery, Stockholm,Sweden
2012 Exhibition "New antiquity", Art salon Piirto, Helsinki, Finland
2012 Participation in exhibition "Arte e Dintorni", Mentana Gallery, Firenze, Italy
2011 First prize in international art competition "Art Moment", Sankt-Peterburg, Russia
2011 Exhibition "Mystery" Eduard Zentsik and Tauno Kangro, White hall, Narva-Joesuu, Estonia
2011 Exhibition "Angels and others", Greger Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Exhibition of photography "Tallinn and sea", Sillamae City Council, Estonia
2010 Exhibition "Tauno Kangro and Eduard Zentsik", Alex Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2010 Exhibition of photo art, Kärdla, Hiiumaa, Estonia
2010 Exhibition "Through the time", Galerii YO, Tallinn, Estonia
2009 Exhibition "Magic", Narva museum, Estonia
2009 Exhibition "Another time", Fahle gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Participation in a charity auction, Rios Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
2008 Participation in a joint photo exhibitions, Moscow, Russia
2008 Exhibition of art society "April", Castle Museum. Saaremaa, Estonia
2008 Avant-garde exhibition "No War", Institute of ECOM, Sillamae, Estonia
2008 Exhibition "Antiquity", Museum of Eduard Wilde, Tallinn, Estonia
2007 Exhibition of photography "Flying people", Y-galerii, Tartu, Estonia
2007 Exhibition of photography "Faces of India", Fortress "Kik–in–de-Kek", Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Exhibition of photography "India personalities", Photo museum, Tallinn, Estonia
2006 Exhibition "Facture richness", Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Exhibition of photography with consul of Russia, Days of India, Tallinn, Estonia
2005 Exhibition "Impressionism and abstraction", Tallinn, Estonia
2004 Exhibition in the building of the Japanese embassy, Tallinn, Estonia
2001 Exhibition "What colour is love?", Russian Dramatic Theatre Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia
1999 First personal exhibition in the Art Museum of Sillamae, Estonia
1998 Exhibition "Workshop in April", Sillamae, Estonia