Hanno Soans, Commissioner for the Estonian exposition at the Venice Biennale 2005, will lead a talk on the work of Ene-Liis Semper and Mark Raidpere and the current direction of Estonian visual art practice on Saturday 12th March, 12pm in the Atrium Space at TBG&S.

"I would like to go back to some of the early works of both Ene-liis Semper and Mark Raidpere -- there is a common or at least parallel impulse recognizable in their works when they started... I have described their earlier authors position, as violent autistic subjectivity. I will outline that phenomenon, the background context of it with some examples from artists earlier works and trace their subsequent development from there."

Temple Bar Gallery and Studios acknowledge the support of the Embassy of Estonia in the presentation of both exhibitions.

For further information on the exhibitions, the talk with Hanno Soans please contact Claire Power t. + 1 671 0073 or claire@templebargallery.com