The title and substantive axis of the exhibition, Passion. The Early Work of Eduard Wiiralt, points directly to the artist's etching entitled Passion (also Man and Woman, 1929). In the period prior to his creative turning point in 1933, these so-called root topics, repeated in various techniques and stages of refinement, were encountered almost obsessively in the majority of the artist's works. This was the time, when Wiiralt, who lived in Paris, thoroughly explored the world of people's sensual enjoyment—human weakness, sexuality, bursts of the subconscious, nuances of pleasure, social depravity.

Photo: Stanislav Stepaško