Exhibition "Stone Age Graphics"
Thursday, 17. jun 2021
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The exhibition "Stone Age Graphics" is open at the museum until 4th of August 2021.Free entrance.
The exhibition consists of frottage rubbings and photographs, which capture moments from history – prehistoric art heritage passed down the millennia. The rubbings were made in places where the prehistoric rock carvings were found: Lake Onega and White Sea in Eastern Karelia, Umba and Ponoi rivers in Kola peninsula, Alta fjord in Northern Norway.
Prehistoric art galleries have been found on every inhabited continent. The visual messages from the Stone Age give us a certain sense of prehistoric history, but much remains a mystery. We can watch images of rock art what has preserved.
Recurring symbols could mean sacral ritual and sacrificial sites, a way of communicating with surrounding natural world and the Creator.
The oldest traces from the Stone Age are tens of thousands of years old. When we compare them side by side, we can find surprising similarities as well as characteristics typical of specific regions.
We can study this invaluable heritage on fragile stone surfaces, and much remains to be found. Through scientific study and popularization of the prehistoric art we try to draw attention to the necessity of preserving it. The frottage rubbings and photographs are my attempt to capture a process in a state of change: I frame and emphasize patterns and elements that I find interesting, comparing styles and themes from different places, eras and fields.
Loit Jõekalda