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Gallery Pallas
\u201cMegaflowers and Tribalfoxes\u201d.
Urmas Viik
13.08\u201313.09.2025

On Wednesday, August 13 at 5 PM, gallery Pallas opens a solo exhibition by Urmas Viik titled \u201cMegaflowers and Tribalfoxes\u201d. The display features the artist\u2019s signature floating installative objects, pseudo-documentary recordings created in special techniques, oversized formats and miniature works. The exhibition draws inspiration from 19th-century botanical engravings and imaginative medieval travelogues.

Having returned to printmaking only in the last decade, Viik blends digital creation with elements of classical line-based aesthetics. His mythological \u201cTribalfoxes\u201d are strange figures that merge animal and human forms on stark white paper. Their postures, gazes, and inner tensions stir layered rhythms in the viewer and provoke a multitude of interpretations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist describes his characters as follows:
\u201cThe series title \u201cTribalfoxes\u201d is a fusion of the words \u201ctribal\u201d and \u201cwerefoxes\u201d. The series plays with visual forms as freely and irresponsibly as it does with meanings. Traits of clans, tribes and gangs are mixed together. The mythical werefox \u2013 a grand spirit of transformation \u2013 leaves its mark on the entire series, blurring the boundaries between the exotic and the mundane, the archaic and the urban, the sensual and the comical. The stylistic approach is deliberately restrained, limited to black, white, and orange. Although the graphics and the process behind them are entirely digital, the visual language leans toward classical line art, incorporating subtle, barely noticeable non-manual shifts. A keen eye may also detect the influence of comics, both in character design and in graphic style. Nevertheless, the narrative quality typical of comics remains in the background, with the emphasis placed instead on visual details.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The distinctive world of \u201cMegaflowers and Tribalfoxes\u201d will remain open at gallery Pallas until September 13.

Urmas Viik\u202f(b 1961) is a printmaker, illustrator and installation artist. He has worked as a professor at Estonian Academy of Arts and Tallinn University. Viik has participated in exhibitions in nearly 30 countries and has received numerous awards: IV class Order of the White Star, The Kristjan Raud Art Award, Annual Awards of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Vaal Gallery Annual prize \u201cHarpuun\u201d, Eduard Wiiralt Prize, Silver Lovie Award in Website: Best Individual Editorial Experience.

The exhibition is supported by Cultural Endowment of Estonia.

Additional information:
Urmas Viik
urmas.viik@artun.ee
56566761
www.urmasviik.ee<\/a>

Gallery Pallas
galerii@pallasart.ee
+372 734 9954
Tue\u2013Sat 11\u201318
www.facebook.com\/GaleriiPallas<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coverphoto: Urmas Viik at Bologna Art Fair. 2025. Private collection.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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