Maie Helm
Sign I
| Artist: | Maie Helm (1958 - ) |
| Title: | Sign I |
| Date: | 1996 |
| Technique: Material: |
chalk, plastic print cardboard, wood fiber-board |
| Height (cm): | 50.0 |
| Width (cm): | 50.0 |
| Description: | Maie Helm is one of the few artists in Estonian contemporary art working with animal imagery. Nevertheless the peculiar content of her images, often based on the absurd, and the emotional scale that varies from sympathy to rage, allow us to see surrealistic parallels of social and unconscious manifestations. Polish critic Tomasz Wilmazski has emphasized the metaphorical quality in Helm's work: “The poetics in Maie Helm's works is similar to a surrealistic atmosphere; it is characterized by a sensitivity typical of fairy-tales, satiated with existential restlessness."* Working with the technique of etching, using charcoal drawings or a device with a plastic screen similar to an installation, the artist remains true to her characters, that she has called “sanctities" in recent years. But the texture of the image, abstracted down to a sign, is still reminiscent of an animal's fur. Anne Untera * Five Graphic Artists. Confessions on Paper. Catalogue. Art Museum of Estonia, 1996. |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Prints and drawings collection |
| Collection number: | G 27635 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 45744 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1500366 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: JPG File size: 5.38MB Resolution: 4770*4860px @ 600dpi |
