TEAPOTS | STATEMENT
Kadri Pärnamets presents exquisite paintings of iconic images on three dimensional, voluminous, black and white teapots. Focusing on gesture and expression, Pärnamets selects known classics of female beauty by painters from the European Renaissance and Impressionist eras, like Lucas Cranach the Elder and Edouard Manet. Having grown up surrounded by these paintings in museums and books, from childhood to present, she has studied and reflected on the women’s expressions and context. Revisiting them during various periods of her life, and now as a mother and wife, she has chosen mythical figures to reflect on the human condition. Sacrifice, service and devotion are seen through the portraits of Venus and Lucretia by Cranach, the bathers of Ingres, nudes of Manet and religious images of Saint Agnes.
