Kaido Ole
Untitled CXLVI
| Artist: | Kaido Ole (1963 - ) |
| Title: | Untitled CXLVI |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil canvas |
| Height (cm): | 60.0 |
| Width (cm): | 60.0 |
| Description: | These paintings on refined wood planks from the borders of pop art and geometrical art make up a specific period in Kaido Ole’s career. Another line, more consistently running through different series of pictures, is the making of ‘stick men’. These two lines have met up in his current works to tell a little twisted story of “good and bad.” “The process of painting glorifies violence and it is actually impossible for art – due to the aesthetic nature of art itself – to speak of violence in an authentic way. In Ole’s painting the themes of violence take on a pleasantly humorous development. Violence lands in the soft environment of the anecdotal absurd. The stick man is squeezed by pincers, he falls into an electric circuit, he is drowned, squeezed together by a wire and, suddenly, the giant head of a child just eats him up. Such polemical characteristics of art as monumentality, sharpness, archaic material and the pictorial material of today all find their place in Ole’s works. Several names and identities have been attributed to the stick man, but in this case he seems to be closely related to the image of Orbik from the Estonian dark humor classic”. Anu Allas |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7117 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 48825 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1447160 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 89.24MB Resolution: 5292*5892px @ 300dpi |
