MY ULTIMATE INSPIRATIONS

Aili Vint: The Sea introduced me to the world of LIGHT. For my whole lifetime I have been mixing Godly Light into my seascapes - and that is a long time, as I date back to the middle of the last century.

Probably this is why I chose to take up my mini-retrospective of the MEDITATIVE GLOW.

From The SEA BOOK +

TRANSPARENT SEA I 2014 DETAILS Oil on canvas, 110 x 190,5 cm artist’s collection

PURE ART OF LIGHT IS MEDITATIVE ART

clean your eyes to light

When your eyes dive into the clear light, you clean your eyes from the everyday. Just like a wine taster, who rinses his mouth with water, before tasting a new kind of wine.

I started painting the Sea again only in 2007 because after experiencing the physical fluidum of white glow, the return to the world of colours was not easy. To come back from the silence and cleanness, after being touched by light, is a real ordeal.

Aili Vint POWER OF COLOUR REFLECTIONS 1993 Wood fibre plate, acryl 200 x 120 x 45 cm artistics collection

NB! The light in this work is reflected on the colour, is glowing from behind. The tilted board is pure white.

MY DREAM PROJECT:
ARVO PÄRT IN CLEAN LIGHT OF GLOW

Aili Vint: Years ago I saw a TV program about ARVO PÄRT. He was talking to the orchestra before the concert, showing with his sensitive hands, how the sound can be delicate and strong, and light and dark at the same time.

The same night, I heard his “Für Alina” on the radio and I saw a clear vision of someone, clad in white, in clean light, conducting. I could only see his sensitive hands. With each movement colourful drops of sound were flying into the light. Drop by drop I heard “Für Alina” emerging from the light, with the sound drops chiming all around. Arvo Pärt had painted his famous piece to become alive in Tintinnabuli style.

From that time on I have dreamed to create a tribute to the music of Arvo Pärt. — In Tintinnabuli style, as a hologram. So far a tribute to Arvo Pärt has been made by Anish Kapoor, at Tate Modern, London in 2003.

I have dreamed to create a tribute to the music of Arvo Pärt

Aili Vint: I would build a spiral space from bright white material and trust it to the light. When reaching the heart of the space, one will have the honour to be in the presence of Godly light, listen to the silence and come back with a clensed soul.

THE PHENOMENON OF ARVO PÄRT proves that with the touch of silence and light, a person will start glowing and chiming.

ARVO PÄRT himself has said: “I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

“And as we well know, when white light and noise is turned off and silence falls, it is unfamiliar, then daunting, and then very beautiful. “ This is a beautiful description of it by Estonian art historian Eero Epner.

ONE MORE SOURCE OF MY INSPIRATION

I will start with an extract from the book by Alessandro Baricco, “MARE OCEANO.”

““While ending up in a mysterious hotel at the seashore by chance, a professor is trying to determine where exactly the Sea ends …”

““The scientist is roaming around with his notebook and measuring tools, being unable to find resolution to the question he is

researching: Where does the end of the Sea start? The perplexed professor is lamenting: “I am right here, within steps of

the Sea, and I don’t understand where is Sea. Sea. - The Sea does not leave traces or give explanations….” “

I, as a marine painter, especially enjoyed reading that book. I sincerely thank the gifted writer and answer with my painting:

“My esteemed professor, I will show you where the Sea ends! — “HERE!”

THE SEA ENDS HERE (dedicated to the Alessandro Baricco) 2007 Oil on canvas 150 x 190 cm artist’s collection

may be here…

I don’t know

how I folded the sea of paper

MODEL OF THE FOLDED SEA

SCULPTURE OF A SEA II 1999, folded white paper, 110 x 190 cm  The work is framed and similar in size to my oil on canvas seascapes, 110 x 190 cm 

when my White Sea actually came to my life

Aili Vint: One morning in my childhood, when I stepped into our back yard, I saw a snow-white sea that smelled of Grandma’s clean sheets, billowing all over the yard. At that time I was certain the White Sea was really white. This is how an illusion of reality is created and the White Sea first born It was 45 years later when it actually came to my life.

THE MAGIC GLOW OF WHITE PAPER

how I became captivated by the white glow on paper When I was planning to participate in te Osaka Graphics Triennale in 1994 I bought three big sheets of expensive —EXSTRA STRONG paper. They were snow white, thick, leathery leather and very expensive. In my studio I placed them side by side on the windowsill. I looked at them against the light, and noticed something amazing. I saw the white clean glow of paper, bouncing from one roll to the other, making them boom with clean light. And then it came to me: Such purity cannot be messed up with ink! So it was decided. If there is woodcut technique, why can not there be paper cut? — I made some cuts to the paper and put it back into the roll. There is no reason why graphic art cannot be three-dimensional.

This is how I discovered 3D graphics, where the Godly Light is the master. That work was exhibited in Osaka Graphic Triennale in 1994.

3D GRAPHIC ART

MAXIMALLY MINIMAL 1994  3D graphics, papers rolls was exhibited in Osaka Graphic Triennal ‘94

in the light of glow

The glow was a physically cognizable fluid. Reflexus. The medical term “reflex” mean an involuntary response to a stimulus, an immediate reaction, but also giving something away.

Just look at this powerful glow of light!

where light and shadow meet a glow is born  

I created just a simple form of white paper, and then trust it to the godly light. Where light and shadow meet, a glow is born. The glow of light is a strange, independent force that creates the impression of visible form. On these sculptures the glimmer of light is so powerful that it makes the form around the white roll of paper echo back from inside and the roll disappears into the light. Look, how this glow can even erase the form and create an impression of spacelessnes.

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