{"id":139204,"date":"2024-10-22T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-22T01:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=139204"},"modified":"2024-10-21T21:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T18:06:29","slug":"exhibition-to-mark-one-hundred-years-since-the-birth-of-visual-artist-ulo-sooster-opens-at-the-mikkel-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/exhibition-to-mark-one-hundred-years-since-the-birth-of-visual-artist-ulo-sooster-opens-at-the-mikkel-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition to mark one hundred years since the birth of visual artist \u00dclo Sooster opens at the Mikkel Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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An exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of \u00dclo Sooster, titled Sooster 100<\/i>, opened last week at the Mikkel Museum, in Tallinn. The exhibition features nearly 160 of Sooster\u2019s works from private collections, many of which have never been on public display before.<\/p>\n

\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970) is regarded as one of the greatest European surrealists of the 20th century. Although his career and life were cut short, he left behind a vast collection of thousands of drawings and paintings that transcended the Iron Curtain and became an integral part of both European and Estonian surrealist art history.<\/p>\n

The Mikkel Museum\u2019s exhibition – Sooster 100: A View from Private Collections<\/i> – follows the artist\u2019s career, from his early painting experiments in Hiiumaa to the enigmatic, unfinished compositions from the final years of his life.<\/p>\n

His life took a dramatic turn after spending seven years in a Soviet prison camp in Kazakhstan, after which he never returned to live in Estonia.<\/p>\n

A significant part of the collection comes from the Sooster family\u2019s private archive, which was moved from Moscow to Tartu in 1990. Included in the collection are unfinished paintings from his later years, that reflect Sooster\u2019s shift towards more conceptual art. A particularly notable piece is a rare pencil drawing of the Mona Lisa, in which the eyes and mouth have been humorously swapped.<\/p>\n

Sooster 100: A View from Private Collections<\/i> will be on display at the Mikkel Museum in Tallinn until May 4, 2025.<\/p>\n

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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970) in his Srertensky Boulevard studio. Moscow, 1970. Photographer: Jaan Kl\u00f5\u0161eiko. Art Museum of Estonia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Interior. 1946. Oil. Collection of Mart Lepp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Self-Portrait with Glasses (1924\u20131970). 1956. Indian ink. Sooster family collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Arabesque at an Exhibition. End of the 1950s \u2013 beginning of the 1960s. Felt-tip pen. Sooster family collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Mona Lisa. 1960. Pencil. Sooster family collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Untitled. 1961. Indian ink. Collection of Viljar Suits<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Three Green Junipers. 1966\u20131968. Oil and paste. Collection of Heiki M\u00f6lder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Forms. 1965. Indian ink. Sooster family collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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\u00dclo Sooster (1924\u20131970). Egg Divided into Four Pieces on a Green Background (unfinished). 1969\u20131970. Mixed media and paste. Sooster family collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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