Marko Mäetamm
Car World. Door
| Artist: | Marko Mäetamm (1965 - ) |
| Title: | Car World. Door |
| Date: | 1994 |
| Technique: Material: |
acrylate latex acrylic glass |
| Height (cm): | 113.0 |
| Width (cm): | 132.0 |
| Description: | A car has several meanings that often tend to overshadow its natural function as an everyday object. Car is a status symbol, and its model and release year define the owner's position in a certain hierarchy. A car signifies power and protection, speed and beauty, destruction and death, pumped-up volume and curly hair flowing in the wind. Marko Mäetamm has taken this semi-god and ripped it to pieces with child-like care and love, painting a colourful picture of every piece in turn. The car suddenly exists in a world of its own, completely separated from its owner and its function. There is usually talk of the return of pop art from the 1960s, in connection with Mäetamm, and a certain playful approach to historical styles. “Mäetamm recognizes his mission mostly as breaking the routine, enlivening the relationship. He focuses the viewer's attention on some formal image, unnoticeable in everyday life, adding to it almost psychedelic brightness and radiance of colour. The statuesque shapeliness of industrial products and the polished appearance of pop-stars who are stylish to the point of being annoying, explode in Mäetamm's hands into clumsy pseudopods, acquiring organic liveliness and a blood circulation, pulsating beyond the surface of things, attracting the viewer's eye."* Anu Allas * Johannes Saar, Marko Mäetamm. - Estonian Artists II. Center for Contemporary Art, Estonia, 2000, p. 103. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7025 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47318 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1258153 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 179.14MB Resolution: 8352*7496px @ 300dpi |
