Naima Neidre
Suffocating
| Artist: | Naima Neidre (1943 - ) |
| Title: | Suffocating |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Technique: Material: |
indian ink paper |
| Height (cm): | 74.0 |
| Width (cm): | 100.0 |
| Description: | Naima Neidre has taken part in several international graphic art exhibitions. The drawings from the series/exhibition “Below the Horizon” – displayed in 1998 at the Tallinn Art Hall Gallery – are, similarly to the artist’s etchings, built on a rhythm of lines similar to capillaries. Curvaceous and flexible, an endless net of lines covers the sheet from edge to edge. Bundles of lines, tightened into realistic and recognizable objects, that in the artist’s earlier graphics stood for the ‘lexis’ of a poetic worldview (a plant, a bird, a figure in a landscape), are missing from the drawings, as are the colours (blue, golden). Gridded structures, bordering on minimalism*, in which dense jungle of lines like energy hubs, have been freed of the semantic burden and gained an authority created by the tension of the line’s relationship to the surface. The exhibition “Below the Horizon” was linked to the theme of a shipwreck. The series was the artist's reaction to the two recent catastrophes of Estonia and Kurkse in the Baltic Sea. Records from below the horizon may designate anything that is concealed, rejected, abandoned, but not forgotten. Anne Untera |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Prints and drawings collection |
| Collection number: | G 27728 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 47321 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1501519 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 355.04MB Resolution: 9908*6262px @ 300dpi |
