10 Questions by Lembit Sarapuu to Kaido Ole

	1. Are you satisfied with your body? I occasionally work out, so obviously not. 2. How do you operate in art - one day at a time, or do you make long-term plans? If the latter, then what are these plans and for how long? I operate in art when I have no other choice (inner needs culminate; someone decent asks nicely; a long fixed deadline is getting close, etc). Longer plan - to make my father's name endure. 3. The word 'honest' is often used in connection with your art. Are you really honest? What does this word mean to you, and I am not only talking about art? I've got the impression that it is often easier to word various things in art more precisely than in life. However, good old art itself is actually not that truthful. I believe an artist is essentially honest in his actions when his work starts to haunt me. And even when he talks about himself. 4. How much are you dependent on the environment; would you be different under other circumstances? I depend on my past that has been played out in my own settings. I think I can adapt pretty fast and am flexible, perhaps a bit too appallingly so.
	5. Would you rather be busy with what surrounds you or what is inside you? I am obsessively busy with myself, often reluctantly. Sometimes I do notice what goes on around me. 6. What happens to your problems once you have turned them into art? They are no longer topical. 7. Do you feel associated with many people? No many. And I immediately worry when some of them decide to leave me temporarily to my own devices. 8. What makes you laugh? Myself and others. An uninterrupted row of small mishaps. I laugh easily at the tiniest opportunity, which is probably occasionally annoying to my fellow citizens.
	9. Do you care about the position of art in society, or how would you describe your relations with society? Oh god! I never trumpet about being an artist. For the lack of anything better, this is how I am diagnosed far too frequently anyway. 10. Your Venice display seems to be built upon the principle of a self-portrait: through different works a viewer gets some sort of picture of you. Is it true what they see? I will never get to see the picture that they see. Mark Raidpere (1975), photographer and video artist Kaido Ole (1963), painter. In the 1990s became one of the most important painters in Estonia. In 2003 participated at the Venice Biennial (together with Marko Mäetamm as John Smith). See more at: www.hot.ee/kaidoole
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