Ludmilla Siim
Air Space
| Artist: | Ludmilla Siim (1938 - ) |
| Title: | Air Space |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Technique: Material: |
oil canvas |
| Height (cm): | 180.0 |
| Width (cm): | 201.0 |
| Description: | The early works of Ludmilla Siim can be described as pre-hyperrealist, as these were the first works in Estonia that showed desolate urban interiors and cityscapes with geometrically regulated space painted with photographic exactitude. The fashionably dressed young figures seem totally out of place in the rooms drawn onto the canvas that follow strict rules of central perspective. In 1977 Ludmilla Siim moved to Finland. Influenced by local trends, her painting style became more abstract. However in her paintings from the 1990s there is a visibly nostalgic return to figure painting. In terms of new technical solutions, she begun using plexiglass in order to accentuate forms and shadows. The artist has also made several sculptures using the same material. Art historian Eha Komissarov has said about her: “Ludmilla Siim is the grand lady of recent Estonian art, a powerful and mysterious person whose artistic work from the 1960s and 1970s holds the art history of the era in its leash”.* The painting “Air Space”, with its geometrically structured room, reflects quite directly Siim’s artistic methods from the 1970s. Her long-time dream to produce a different kind of reality with her images, is further intensified by tragic events that took place in her personal life (the death of her husband caused by the negligence of hospital staff after a successful operation). The souls that are cut away from this world by the screens, float in the harsh light of the bleak operation theatre, ready to dissolve into the air space. Kädi Talvoja * Eha Komissarov. Ludmilla Siimu maalid Vaalas. – Sirp, 1998, 27 November. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Paintings collection |
| Collection number: | M 7087 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47857 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1340314 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 153.43MB Resolution: 8091*6626px @ 300dpi |
