Works
In painting “Moss’ belief into painting as medium, voyeurism, and describing the world with no empathy” are the important markers of quality.
Rauno Thomas Moss is considered to be part of the Tartu school of painting (so named the School of Pallas), which traditions and history are growing out from the 1930s. But Moss’ works are characterized by a style that lies close to the aesthetics of advertisement, comics, graffiti, and urbanite art with interest to body modification, and not as much that humanistic bourgeoisie what the School of Pallas represents. His figures in the series of “Clinical” paintings are portrayed in surroundings in which gray skinned bodies and white sheets in dream like representation gives a feeling of burning fever. Moss’ autoerotic nude paintings are dealing with the personal affairs together with social identity in meditative and calm form that uses carefully the aesthetics of Nazi and homosexual art (Reliberation, 2008). Result is magazine cover or movie poster like images that still dig deeper under viewers skin than expected.
Rauno Thomas Moss has been named in Estonian media after his debut exhibition in Tallinn (January 2008 in gallery Vaal) as the leader of the new generation of Tartu painters.
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