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Toomas Mikk's installation is primarily based on a generally comprehensible idea of humanity. Human relationships with nature, time, history or human forces are usually solved by simple means and in a way that is aesthetically easy to understand. The installation “Heating" shows an old, half-open, outer shell of a furnace, on the verge of disappearance from contemporary interiors, with a warm reddish light shimmering through its cracks. The furnace appears as a source of warmth and light, both essential in the human world, but also as an ‘alter ego' of an aging individual. However old and worn out the earthly shell of an individual may be, “the inner light", the will to live and spiritual light continue to shine. Even if it is a lifeless object, there still is a positive emotional space, an atmosphere of comfort around the heated furnace. Juta Kivimäe

Toomas Mikk
Furnace

 
Artist: Toomas Mikk (1960 - )
Title: Furnace
Date: 1997
Technique:
Material:

metal, oil paint
Height (cm): 185.0
Width (cm): 90.0
Depth (cm): 70.0
Description: Toomas Mikk's installation is primarily based on a generally comprehensible idea of humanity. Human relationships with nature, time, history or human forces are usually solved by simple means and in a way that is aesthetically easy to understand. The installation “Heating" shows an old, half-open, outer shell of a furnace, on the verge of disappearance from contemporary interiors, with a warm reddish light shimmering through its cracks. The furnace appears as a source of warmth and light, both essential in the human world, but also as an ‘alter ego' of an aging individual. However old and worn out the earthly shell of an individual may be, “the inner light", the will to live and spiritual light continue to shine. Even if it is a lifeless object, there still is a positive emotional space, an atmosphere of comfort around the heated furnace.
Juta Kivimäe
Related categories: Contemporary Art
Copyright notice: Art Museum of Estonia
AME collection: Sculpture collection
Collection number: S 1749
Accretion number: EKM j 49800
Muis reference http://muis.ee/museaalView/1445552
File info: Source type: photo
File type: TIF
File size: 9.80MB
Resolution: 1778*2685px @ 300dpi
 
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