Talve Tõnu tööd: 2010

Fragile Live Art-lessons 2001-2009 DVD.
Selected videos and InSEA congresses´ extras 2003- 2009.

Fragile Live Art-lessons big DVD has running time approximately 2
hours. This DVD is the result of Live art-lessons series and private
studies of the last 9 years. The videos with Fragile original music
have been accepted by the InSEA congresses´ organizers since
2003 and shown at the presentations.
The creation of Fragile Live artwork is a composed and improvised
act, where ideas and motifs travel all the time between the artists,
students and art-teachers. Live art-lessons are accompanied with
professional musicians playing live or with music on cd-s, as a prework.
The accent in building up Fragile Live art-lessons may be
different due to the place, time and contact. The phases of creation
may be expressed in three levels: automatic or unconscious, studies
or conscious acts and disciplinary or creative work of fine art. These
special Live-art works, as an art-teacher and artist, are based on
more than 25 years of professional experience.
Please have a look and listen to the demo of Fragile Live Art-lessons
DVD, 2001-2009:

http://talvetonutd.blogspot.com/
http://www.areng.ee/?id=12708

The booklet of Fragile DVD includes the comments about the Live
Art- lessons from the InSEA collegues and students through years.

1. About the workshop : ' Talve, Fragile Live Art-lesson'
The workshop Talve Fragile Live Art-lesson consisted of a multimedia
presentation including a video, a musical performance and a visual arts
performance. This multimedia presented by the Estonian artists Talve,
Tonu, Jürjendal,Robert and Urb, Arvo at the InSEA 2006 International congress,
was a very successful event combining arts and art education in the way
that the interactivity created between the actors and the audience was truly an
act of full art education. By performing painting and music in real time
accompanied by a video documentary the ' Talve Fragile Live Art-lesson'
broke barriers of language and enabled audience to feel the creative power
of art expression.
The video installation was a documentary presenting selected scenes of
other ' Talve Fragile Live Art-lesson' performances, while passing the video
on the screen during the group performance, the musicians played original
music, which inspired Tonu Talve visual responses.
As the congress convenor and based on the evaluation reports of the InSEA
2006 congress I can recommend this multimedia presentation to be
presented in other congresses.

Viseu, Portugal, 2007-04-15
Dr. Teresa Eça

2. Tõnu Talve - Estonian painter.

Tõnu Talve is a well-known Estonian artist. His style is very original.
It´s not possible to mix up his paintings with any another artist. Talve uses
mainly blue and silver-hoary colours. His style of deformation of the
objects is also very specified and declining toward abstraction. Maybe
thanks to his spontaneous manner of working. Talve belongs to Trio Fragile
group. Trio with guitarist Robert Jürjendal, drummer Arvo Urb and Tõnu
Talve make performances. While musicians are playing, Talve finishes his
painting. Trio is very popular among Estonian public. Nowadays they are
gathering also international fame. It is also important that they do not
perform only in the main Estonian cities, but also in the small
ones. So Talve made recently exhibition-tour in seven different places in
Estonia titled "Ka".
Who is Ka? Talve is very interested in Egyptian mythology. Ka was for
egyptians our representer in other side our world- he was our double in the
other world after human death. Life after death depends on lives, who had
to sacrifice for Ka.
It´s important not to mix up Ka with Ba, who was later in
the christian thinking the soul of human being. Ba leaves like bird the
human body. Verymany Talve´s painting are divided into two parts: real
world here and life in the "this world".
I think that is necessary to emphazise also Talve´s activity as an art
teacher. He has included to his exhibition-tours the works of his
favourite pupils and also the drawings of his three- four year daughter.
I hope that your public would like Tõnu Talve´s works.

Ants Juske, Estonia
Art critic and curator, Ph.D

3. Your presentation was very interesting. I enjoyed it a lot after all
the speaking and listening. You are very energetic. Nevertheless,
although it was lovely just to sit and enjoy the video, I was hoping
that you would tell a bit of your premises, especially how student's
input and your own work overlap. Maybe in your next presentation
you could analyze that a bit after the presentation of video? Your
presentation inspired me in a way you combined music and visual,
but at the same time it raised many pedagogical questions. Were the
painting canvases given to students with something already painted
by you on them? I suppose that was the case? If you do it that way,
why is it? Do you see your own way of expressing a way to teach - of
maybe even manipulate - or a fruitful visual learning process for the
teenagers? Your way of teaching reminds me a bit of some traditional
painting schools: the relation between novices and an expert.
Novices learning through the master's technique and subjects and
develop through that their own skills and their own creativity. It would
be interesting to hear how much space is left for students' own
imagination. How do you see your view points of pedagogy? I think it
would be very interesting for you to analyze the relation between your
own visions and way of expressing, and student's possibilities to
express something from their points of views through learning from
you. As you see your presentation inspired me very much, at the
same time I find your presentation and approach to student working
controversial. It seems to me that you combine master-novice -style
with something unique.

Anniina Koivurova, Lapin Yliopisto.

• 4. Art critic Ants Juske, PhD:

In the terms of art theory one could call Tõnu Talve's art to be
process oriented. This means that the way of making art is as
important as the result. The process is as important as the result –
one cannot really appreciate the result without seeing the process
or the documentation of it on video. His friends the musicians play
important roles, which give an additional fix of energy to his already
impulsive way of painting.
Only in the end he literally puts an end to his energetic painting
moves by taking a marker and painting randomly some dots on the
work. We could even say that he is an Estonian Jackson Pollock,
whose painting process was documented. Talve has still not put his
painting down horizontally nor walked on it while holding a brush
and a can of paint, but you can see the same kind of spontaneity in
his actions. Usually Talve makes a sort of pre painting for his
shows, which is kind of calculated, but leaves space for
improvisation. When the music starts he enters into a creative
trance – with fast moves he grabs all sorts of painting attributes
beginning from a simple brush to a marker. Seldom he looks at his
work from a distance as usually is done by academic painters. He
is so into the process that he does not necessarily know where he
wants to end up.
As an art teacher he has also inspired his students to be as wild
with paints as he is. His method while ignoring the dry academic
approach of a realistic painting, of perspective and of composition
helps to enhance the child's natural openness. It takes the pupil
back to their early childhood where they took a pencil, a brush or
clay and just express themselves and their emotions.

5. Trio Fragile performance

Trio Fragile has performed in Estonia for many years and in Keila for 3
times. The last show took place on 26th of May, when were the
celebrations of Keila birthday.
Trio Fragile performance was powerful and full of energy. Students who
painted with Tõnu Talve, enjoyed it very much. Even the audience was
grooved by the amazing performing and excellent weather. But there had
to be something that had gone wrong – Fragile members didn’t do the
sound check before the show started and that meant waiting and hoping
that everything will go well. Why it went wrong? Because they had lack of
time. The artist himself thought that the sound wasn’t good enough and
that’s the reason why students weren’t concentrated on their work. Luckily
in the end everything went well and the show with enjoyable music was
superb.
The paintings that were made by Tõnu Talve and his students will go to
the new school house, which will be ready in 2009.
Sabina Vatter & Kertu Paalaroos Keila Gymnasium, Estonia.

6. CHAMBER MUSIC AND ART WITH TÕNU TALVE

I walked along the autumn Street, and then along the Spring Street, and
arrived at the Westholm Gymnasium, to the concert of the Tallinn
Chamber Orchestra; Tõnu Talve´s open painting session being part of the
program.
There was a screen above the stage of the large hall of the school. The
orchestra had been placed in front of it. On the right hand was a canvas
on the easel and paints for the artist. Children were gathering. The
musicians tuned their instruments and started to play, Händel´s Concerto
grosso G-sharp op 6 No 1; then The Passion by Erkki Sven Tüür and
finally Händel´ s Concerto grosso B-sharp op 6 No 7. The artist stepped
on the stage and started to paint.
Listening to Händel in this beautiful hall with a high ceiling, I was thinking
of the time of Baroque, when playing music was first and foremost a social
event; of Baroque castles, where the walls and vaults were decorated with
mythological compositions by Pietro da Cortona and other artists. The
theatrical era of Baroque turned everything into a play with elements of
music and carnival. The artists at that time must have been perfect
psychologists and salesmen, making their work fascinating through the
effects of light and shade, illusion, and the human body rendered in a
variety of poses. Also through the dimensions that sometimes completely
deceive the human eye, which may take a courtier, leaning on the
balustrade on the other side of a hall, for a real person.
Talve was working simultaneously on two canvases. I recognised his
favourite motif, the lighthouse, on one picture. The schoolboys were
snickering a little bit at the movement of his hand falling into the rhythm of
the music. The cold colours and deserted backgrounds of Talve´s
paintings sometimes make me think of Dali´s dream fantasies, maybe of a
giraffe that might suddenly emerge out of nothingness.
A cameraman was walking around and filming everything. Through his
camera the action was projected on the screen: the artist´s hand, the
bowing violinists, or faces of the children, who were watching and
listening.
I was contemplating, that different arts approach each other actively
today. The other characteristic strive is: to make a film about everything,
that is going on. (It is no secret that almost each artstudent nowadays
dreams of a film director´s career.) These two things have something in
common with the Baroque culture. Talve’s show was simultaneously
perceived as in film and live, which enriched the experience in many
different ways: one could see the picture as a whole, and closeups of the
texture at the same time, as well as other aspects. In a way, it gave the
whole thing kind of a Pollockian spontaneity, a feeling that perhaps the
process is sometimes more important than the picture, and a possibility to
look at the picture like at a document registering everything, that the artist
has done in the process of painting.
One could also look at the show as a collage, that speculates with
different social values and meets the viewer’s interest. While the
postmodernist architecture is borrowing many different tricks from the
entertainment, why cannot the painting do the same? The many-sided use
of audio-visual means at the Westholm gymnasium was certainly very
inventive and inspiring.
Later I went to another concert at a different school, where St Paul’s
Suite op 29 by Holst was played, as well as Heino Eller’s Five pieces for
the string orchestra, and finally Bela Bartok’s Romanian dances.This very
beautiful and expressive program inspired the artist to choose colors, that
reminded of the warm sunshine in a southern country.
So Talve showed us, how a painter takes the immediate atmosphere that
surrounds him while painting, whether he really thinks about it or not.
Music inspires him, and the picture that he in painting, inspires the
audience, who has a chance to test one’s susceptibility, and takes an
original experience home with him.

VAPPU THURLOW, art critic.

7. Visible music, vocal picture– TRIO FRAGILE at our school.

Trio Fragile is a collective, what combines improvisational music and art.
They have published 3 music albums – “Manifest” (’98), “Õunapuu
osakas” (’00) and “Saad” (’04). Together they’ve operated over 10 years,
combining guitarist Robert Jürjendal, percussionist Arvo Urb and painter
Tõnu Talve. How it all got started, tells Tõnu Talve the following: “Trio
Fragile was at the beginning, 11 years ago, Duo Fragile: Robert Jürjendal
as guitarist and me as a painter on a frosted glass. Tõnu Talve has made
exhibitions over 15 years, but most considerable of them have appeared
in past few years, with general name “KA”. The “KA-8” took place last year
in Tartu, Vanemuise Concerthouse foyer. Ants Juske, the doctor of artscience,
has helped this exhibition series. About Trio Fragile’s
performances, says Talve the following: “I have, with Fragile’s few video,
which the author of ideas and co-director I am, been in Helsinki,
Stockholm, Istanbul, Barcelona and Viseus, Portugal, where the teacher
congress’ InSEA took place. In the last, Portugal’s InSEA this year, Trio
Fragile was in a body and gave “the art-lesson 1”.”
Tõnu Talve’s paintings can be found in Finland, Sweden, Russia,
Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Canada and USA.
On 23rd of November Trio Fragile performed in our school. The show
began with Robert Jürjendal’s quiet guitar solo, after what followed Arno
Kalbus’ (replacing Arvo Urb, who couldn’t come) soft beat of the drum.
In few moments Tõnu Talve started to paint. His moves were accurate and
bodacious, but also simple and enjoyable. It can be said that on the stage
the game of music and colour appeared at the same time. While painting,
Talve added many colours alternately: orange, black, pink, blue, white etc.
Music collected energy and from that time Talve painted assuredly and
more powerful. The fourth person on the stage – the cameraman –
brought double reality on the screen, filming painter’s and musicians faces
and moves. At the end of painting, Talve looked his pictures from the
distance, to be sure if they are ready. After short thinking, he took the
colours again and added some dashing lines. Only after this the paintings
were ready. One hour passed and the show was over.
Trio Fragile’s music style is hard to specify, but I can say that they have
found their own style, which makes them even more special. Robert
Jürjendal has said about music that: “The CD’s are studio-work and the
concerts – improvisation. For any reasons it is not programmatic music,
but free improvisation based in common white energy, where Tõnu Talve
with his “open painting” is also a part of it.
T he members of Trio Fragile say that they are an ambient project, with
guitar, electronics, drums and live paintings, because on stage they make
music and art at the same time. Tõnu Talve said that for 1-hourperformance
a thorough and elaborated work needs to be done, both from
the art and music side.
Tõnu Talve thanks for the interest and approval that had showed up
during his stay in the school and this from the teachers and students side.

Fragile Live Art-lessons DVD, contents:
Videos.

1. Trio Fragile LIVE 2001 Presented at InSEA Congress, Stockholm,
Helsinki, Tallinn – 2003
2. Chamber Artwork 2004 Presented at InSEA Congress, Istanbul –
2004
3. Fragile Live Art-lessons 2005 Presented at Arts Visuals Congress,
Barcelona - 2005 Presented at InSEA Congress, Viseu – 2006
4. Fragile Live Art-lesson 3 Aerosfaer 2007 Presented at InSEA
Congress, Heidelberg, Karlsruhe - 2007
5. Fragile Live Art-lesson 4 2008 Presented at InSEA Congress,
Osaka - 2008 Tale Of An Appletree A,B

A. english version. Tale Of An Appletree

B. estonian version Lugu Õunapuust
Extras

1. T.Talve "Fragile Live Art-lesson 3" , selected text - presentation at
InSEA 2007, estonian and english version
2. T.Talve "Fragile Live Art-lesson 4", selected text - presentation at
InSEA 2008, estonian and english version + photos
3. Repros/photos of the artworks
4. Fragile Live photos

Fragile art-lesson project does work and has potential to go on. As far as
the students, pupils, collegues, artists and professional musicians see it.

New horizon is AEROSFAER!

Thank You all for everything and please, enjoy the DVD.

Tõnu Talve, art-teacher / artist
Laulasmaa School
Estonia.