{"id":3547,"date":"2023-09-29T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T10:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konradmagi.ee\/?p=3547"},"modified":"2023-10-14T13:41:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-14T13:41:58","slug":"commemoration-of-the-145th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-konrad-magi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konradmagi.ee\/en\/commemoration-of-the-145th-anniversary-of-the-birth-of-konrad-magi\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of the 145th Anniversary of the Birth of Konrad M\u00e4gi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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1 November 2023 marks the passing of 145 years since the birth of Konrad M\u00e4gi (1878\u20131925). Numerous events will be held at the initiative of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation over the course of a month to mark this occasion. You will find further information on these events below.<\/strong>

A musical excursion<\/strong> to Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s painting locations in Norway, Italy, France, and Estonia will be presented at the Estonian National Museum Library on 1 October at 12 noon<\/strong>. Works by Jean Sibelius, Albert Roussel, Fartein Valen, Ottorino Respighi, and Eduard Tubin will be performed in a programme put together by Mihhail Gerts. The performers are Heili Rosin-Leivategija (flute) and Mihhail Gerts (piano). Eero Epner will speak about the paintings M\u00e4gi painted in those places.
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The exhibition Konrad M\u00e4gi. Unseen Paintings<\/em> <\/a>will be opened<\/strong> at the Estonian National Museum on 12 October<\/strong>. In recent years, the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation has found dozens of hitherto unknown works by M\u00e4gi from his various creative periods. They were first displayed at the Mikkel Museum in Tallinn in August of last year, yet the current exhibition is an expanded exposition where paintings that have come to light in recent years and even in the last few months will be on display. The works have been discovered in Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Canada, and Australia. They include both the largest and the smallest known paintings by Konrad M\u00e4gi, in addition to the only known work from M\u00e4gi\u2019s Copenhagen period, a seascape that has been folded up and hidden behind a closet for years, one of the first watercolours by M\u00e4gi from Helsinki, and so on. Visitors will also have the chance to read stories in the exhibition hall about the disappearance of M\u00e4gi\u2019s paintings. The exhibition has been put together by the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation, designed by Mari Kurismaa, and its graphic design is by Mari Kaljuste.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue that tells the stories of the disappearance and rediscovery of the paintings. The designer of the catalogue is Angelika Schneider.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 13 October 2023 to 7 January 2024.
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Joonas Sildre\u2019s voluminous graphic novel<\/strong> V\u00e4rviline M\u00e4gi<\/em><\/strong> (Colourful M\u00e4gi) will be published in mid-October<\/strong>. This novel was completed as a product of many years of work. It pictorially sums up the more important turning points in M\u00e4gi\u2019s life and oeuvre, stressing various colour schemes in M\u00e4gi\u2019s art. Joonas Sildre is the author of a biography of Arvo P\u00e4rt, which has earned international recognition. Sildre explores Konrad M\u00e4gi within the network of M\u00e4gi\u2019s own internal tensions and quests, the international context, and conditions in Estonia in the first half of the 20th<\/sup> century. \u2018I have always been interested in what that force is that activates an artist,\u2019 says Sildre. \u2018Konrad M\u00e4gi appeared to be a prime example of the complicated path of an artist, altogether an archetype, whose life span would be interesting to examine. Yet I knew that to solve the enigma named Konrad M\u00e4gi, I would also have to study the deeper colour layers situated beneath the surface and shed light on them.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The project room exhibition Konrad M\u00e4gi in Close-up<\/em><\/strong> will be opened at the Kumu Art Museum on 19 October<\/strong>. The exhibition is based on the master\u2019s thesis of Darja Jefimova, the keeper of the painting collection of the Art Museum of Estonia. Nearly thirty Konrad M\u00e4gi paintings were documented through technical examinations in the course of that thesis. The exhibition reveals to visitors layers of M\u00e4gi\u2019s paintings that cannot be seen with the naked eye: underdrawings, overpaintings, corrections, and changes. Various technical means are used. The exhibition\u2019s designer is Villu Plink and its graphic designer is K\u00fclli Kaats.
The exhibition will be open to the public from 19 October 2023 to 14 April 2024.
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The Theatrum premiere<\/strong> of Konrad M\u00e4gi kirjad<\/em><\/strong> (Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s Letters) will take place on 31 October<\/strong> at the Estonian National Museum. Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s life story, human relationships, and world view are brought before the audience through M\u00e4gi\u2019s own words in Ott Aardam\u2019s musical production. M\u00e4gi\u2019s confession-like correspondence allows us to glimpse the development of an artist and his inner attitudes. Theatrum actors read Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s letters. Georg Jakob Salum\u00e4e has composed original music for the production, which will be performed by a string quartet. The next performance of this production will take place on 1 November at the Theatrum theatre hall in Tallinn.
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An international conference<\/strong> on Konrad M\u00e4gi will be held on the 145th<\/sup> anniversary of the birth of Konrad M\u00e4gi on 1 November <\/strong>at the Heino Eller Music School in Tartu. The conference speakers are Pilvi Kalhama, Directress of the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Timo Huusko, Senior Curator at the Ateneum Art Museum, Nils Ohlsen, Director of the Lillehammer Art Museum, and Eero Epner of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation. Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s oeuvre will be placed in various international contexts and his works will be considered from new angles. Pilvi Kalhama will give a presentation entitled \u2018Breaking Canons. The Power of Dissidence in Konrad M\u00e4gi’s Oeuvre\u2019. In his presentation, Nils Ohlsen will analyse parallels in how Konrad M\u00e4gi and members of the Die Br\u00fccke art movement went to the seashore on islands and how they found new creative impulses there. Timo Huusko will consider the emergence of Romanticism and Modernism in Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s landscapes. Eero Epner will speak about the activities of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation. All the speakers will also engage in a panel discussion. The conference will be in English with translation into Estonian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On that same day, the traditional Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation Award<\/strong> will be presented to a person who has done a great deal to popularise the life and work of Konrad M\u00e4gi. Hitherto, the painter T\u00f5nis Saadoja, the film director Marianne K\u00f5rver, and Directress of the Espoo Museum of Modern Art Pilvi Kalhama, among others, have earned the award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A postage stamp from the treasures of the Art Museum of Estonia will be presented<\/strong> \u2013 this time the stamp depicts M\u00e4gi\u2019s painting of Marie Reisik (1916). Marie Reisik was a suffragette and M\u00e4gi\u2019s good friend. M\u00e4gi created an extraordinary portrait of her, where a convincing result is achieved using scant painting devices. This is one of the most personal and psychological portraits in M\u00e4gi\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first episode of a television series <\/strong>on Konrad M\u00e4gi will be broadcast on Estonian Television (ETV) at 22:05 on the evening of 1 November<\/strong>. M\u00e4gi\u2019s path to art and the importance of people, nature, and colour in his works will be discussed through four episodes. Kristi Kongi, Lola Annabel Kass, Marek Tamm, Tiit Hennoste, Kadi Polli, Kaido Ole, Linda Kaljundi, Tiit P\u00e4\u00e4suke, Daniele Monticelli and T\u00f5nis Tatar will analyse M\u00e4gi and his era. Shots of locations where Konrad M\u00e4gi painted and of his paintings add expressiveness to the episodes. The director of the series is Erle Veber, and the editor is Kai V\u00e4\u00e4rtn\u00f5u.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting in September<\/strong>, the television series<\/strong> Kunstihetk<\/em><\/strong> (A Moment in Art) will be broadcast on ETV on Thursdays after the OP! telecast. Each episode of this series created by Marianne K\u00f5rver brings a painting from M\u00e4gi\u2019s oeuvre to viewers and expands upon the backgrounds of each painting and the contexts in which they were created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1 November 2023 marks the passing of 145 years since the birth of Konrad M\u00e4gi (1878\u20131925). Numerous events will be held at the initiative of the Konrad M\u00e4gi Foundation over the course of a month to mark this occasion. You will find further information on these events below. A musical excursion to Konrad M\u00e4gi\u2019s painting… <\/p>\n

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