Andres Manniste

 

Studio work and selected internet projects

Recent paintings

New York 1968, 2025 (1,38 X 1,4 m)

Dreadnought, 2026 (2,4 X 1,0 m)

the future
(2023-2024)

I began this project by painting a Ford Thunderbird.

I woke up having had a dream of images from my past floating in speech bubbles. Each bubble contained an item such as a house, or a car or a summer cottage. These were less memories than flashes on the screen of a browser. The dream reminded me of the mid 1970s, a period when experiencing a temporary shortage of oil made everyone question their dependence on fossil fuels.

Like all dreams and memories, the images I am working with are not quite accurate and not quite as well-researched as a historical documentation. Sources taken from internet are fused on the surface of the painting reflecting an understanding of a past from a distinctly different present.



car

Car, 2023 (0,31 X 0,31 m)

house

House, 2023 (0,48 x 0,61 m)

living

Living Room, 2023 (1,22 x 1,02 m)

jet

Jet, 2023 (0,89 x 1,14 m)

island

Island, 2023 (1,17 x 1,12 m)

urban

Urban planning, 2023 (1,32 x 1,52 m)

sheep

Sheep, 2023 (1.32 x 1.47 m)

gas

1977 Chevy, 2024 (1.52 x 1.17 m)

saudi

Expats, 2024 (1,72 x 0,96 m)

Selected Digital works 2025-2026

time

sailboat (2026)

time

pyrotechnics (2025)

orcas

Ships (2025)

snake

Pumpjack (2025)

1025 X 768
(2017- 2022)

In this piece I was working with a subjective combination of diametrically opposite images but the source images are hard to decipher at first sight.

I believe that everything in culture has been made and recorded. All that is left now are associations that we make between the things that already exist. The cross pollination of what we have done as people is what is left for us to create with.

I embody the traditional manner of painting, the tradition of time and labour connects me with the past and the present.

. Through an experiential act I am associating and connecting the two poles of the earth through my own time as a testament to my physical presence and ontology and to things that will never touch.

The format, 1025 X 768 represents about 1 megabyte (MB) of data in a compressed image commonly found on line.



University

University_haecceity, 2017 (2,29 x 1,7 m)

light_dark

Light_dark, 2019 (2,29 x 1,7 m)

Celery_strawberry, 2018 (2,29 x 1,7 m)

arctic

Arctic_antarctic, 2019 (2,29 x 1,7 m)

Rockies_ manicouagan, 2021 (2,29 x 1,7 m)

Heaven_hell, 2022 (2,29 x 1,7 m)

Selected Digital works 2018-2024

time

sun (2024)

time

Time (2023)

orcas

Orcas (2022)

snake

Snake (2022)

pandemic

Artemis (2022)

pigeons

Maps (2022)

cat_drama

Cat drama (2021)

pandemic

Pandemic (2020)

pigeons

Pigeons (2020)

sunrise

Sunrises (2020)

shore

Shore (2020)

dreams

Lion cheetah (2019)

dreams

Toucan (2018)

forest

Forest fall (2020)

Ensevelir (2018)

Galerie d'Art d'Outremont

Selected Digital works 2015-2017

giraffe

Giraffes (2015)

Shifting city (2015)

pride

Pride (2017)

Penthesilea (2012)
Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montréal

penthesilea

Photo: Normand Rajotte

Selected Digital works 2012-2014

vacarme

Vacarme (2012)

rouen1

Cathédrale (2012)

mountain

Mountain (2012)

fish

Fish (2013)

bison

Bison (2014)

jewels

Jewelry (2014)

night

Nightvision (2014)

leda

Leda (2014)

fire

God is here (2014)

fog

Fog (2014)

headhunter

Headhunter (2014)

Cacophonie des esprits (2007)
Galerie Joyce Yahouda, Montréal

me_me_2007

Selected Digital and internet works 2003-2010 (Please activate pop-ups on your browser)

me_me

me_me (HTML, 2006)

phasis

Phasis (HTML, 2004)

lacorne

Corne (HTML, 2003)

Fossil (Painting and silkscreens: 2000-2005)

peintures

Creation of knowledge (painting event, 2003)

creation

Phasis (a series of prints and images, 2002)
Esthésio art contemporain, Québec

esthesio