Leonhard Lapin
Crossing Lines III
| Artist: | Leonhard Lapin (1947 - 2022) |
| Title: | Crossing Lines III |
| Date: | 1994 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil wood |
| Height (cm): | 165.0 |
| Width (cm): | 66.5 |
| Description: | In the exhibition catalogue “Room 312A", Lapin describes his formal language in the 1990s as a way of developing conceptual geometry. The term ‘conceptual geometry' was coined by the artist himself. This style can be seen as a continuation of Lapin's long process of developing his experience of suprematism, however in thoroughly altered temporal and spatial conditions. One of the components of this multi-layered concept is icon painting. Lapin took over the modern version from Malevich, and the subject is directly expressed in “Crossing Lines". Leonhard Lapin writes: “The attempt to express the initial endeavours of the primary source in order to get rid of the state of relativity that surrounds the individual and seek the absolute in a psychic, as well as in a cosmic sense is stronger than in suprematism. Equally unlike with suprematism, the problem of the void has come into view in my work. In the void I see a concept of space and cosmos characteristic of the end of the century. The presence of the void in an art piece gives it a specific mentality and persuades the artist to get rid of substance and instead enter into a world where substance and soul are as one."* Eha Komissarov * Leonhard Lapin, Rytmit sfääreillä. - Ruum 312A. Viron nykytaidetta. Exhibition catalogue. Hyvinkää Art Museum/Oulu Art Museum, 2000, p. 42. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 6962 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 44834 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/249596 |
| File info: |
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