Robin Nõgisto
Robin Nõgisto (b. 1992) is an artist from Tallinn. Having graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in painting, he also works in film and music. He likes to combine painting with moving images and images with sound, but says that painting is still the ultimate art form for him. He has also said that many things in his art come from dreams. Yes, it is a psychedelic fantasy world that draws inspiration from the endless reservoir of popular culture, where Count Dracula could easily find himself on board a yellow submarine jamming with the Beatles, and he wouldn’t even be surprised by that fact.
“A unique energy permeates all of Nõgisto’s work. His paintings glorify a certain lust for life, a desire for disobedience, and a critique of ultra-consumption; they express a condemnation of screen society, violence, and the fooling of the masses. Nõgisto has the ability to create his own somnambulist world, full of both fantasy and nightmare, that never lets us off the hook.” – Thibault Bissirier
