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Alar Tuul (b. 1982) is a painter whose work is brutally honest. His work often raises critical questions about individuality and the systems we live within—and help to create. No matter how strongly we believe in our own freedom, we must admit that we are voluntarily part of a larger mass, where everything is interconnected through screens and influenced by the content reflected there.
Of course, the theme can also be turned the other way around: how much responsibility do we take for the content we create ourselves? How powerful can a single spoken or written word truly be?
Although Alar Tuul (b. 1982) often works with a strong undercurrent of social critique, his primary focus lies in artistic exploration – a play between order and chaos. On one hand, we see clear lines, pure colour fields, and defined forms; on the other, these are contrasted by absolute abstraction and expressive intensity.
Tuul’s painterly language reflects influences from early 20th-century European abstraction as well as the abstract expressionism that developed in the United States. There is a certain kinship with the work of Karel Appel and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
