Exhibition // "To Pay an Arm and a Leg", Elīna Vītola

To Pay an Arm and a Leg
Elīna Vītola
Curator: Ieva Astahovska
6.12.2024 — 8.2.2025
We are opening Elīna Vītola's exhibition To Pay an Arm and a Leg on 6 December at 18.00 at Kogo Gallery.

“To pay an arm and a leg” – to pay an extremely high price – is a popular idiom in English; it is used in a wide variety of situations, and its origins are said to date back to the Second World War. It seems to equate apparently incompatible things like buying, selling and corporeal existence – because a high price can apply to many things. In the context of the exhibition title, the idiom asks questions about the value and experience of both art and life, including the cost of life choices. These themes are also important in Elīna Vītola’s other works, as captured, for instance, in the phrase “Common Issues in Painting and Everyday Life”, the title of her series of solo exhibitions, ongoing since 2017. In the current exhibition, she connects reflections not only on art and life but also on the past and the present, the personal and the collective, the known and the unspoken.
As a painter who departs from the usual paths of painting and works with a conceptual yet abstract artistic language, Vītola is searching, this time, for new ways to connect the content-based and the non-representational threads of art, by doing so, engaging its materiality, technologies and space in a dialogue.
The exhibition is funded by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, the State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia and the City of Tartu. Special thanks to Aleksandrs Bieziņš Raiskums primary school, Kaspars Kalniņš!
Read more about the exhibition  http://www.kogogallery.ee/.../to-pay-an-arm-and-a-leg/
Kogo Gallery
Kastani 42, Tartu
Wed–Fri at 12–18, Sat at 12–16
www.kogogallery.ee/en/

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