Hannes Starkopf
Portrait of Marko Mäetamm
| Artist: | Hannes Starkopf |
| Title: | Portrait of Marko Mäetamm |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Technique: Material: |
casting, oil paint plaster, metal |
| Height (cm): | 90.0 |
| Width (cm): | 90.0 |
| Depth (cm): | 90.0 |
| Description: | In the early 1990s Hannes Starkopf was the one who brought neo-pop art into sculpture; Marko Mäetamm, the person portrayed, was a man of the same age who shared the same views. Three gypsum heads, painted using the methods of canonical pop art from the 1960s, carry images and quotations from the colorful lithographs of Mäetamm himself. A year before the completion of these portraits, Starkopf and Mäetamm held a joint exhibition, Subjective POP. Starkopf, who had an academic sculptor’s education, came to the Estonian artistic landscape carrying a double burden. His grandfather, the sculptor Anton Starkopf, was one of the elite of Estonian art classics, whereas the grandson started his sculptor’s career at a time when the earlier idea of a good sculpture was ruthlessly taken apart. Joining the wave of neo-pop art was one of the ways to accommodate the academic sculptor’s skills, learned at school, to the changed world. Combining correctly modelled portraits and figures with slightly absurd, colorful paintings, he placed his artwork in a context generally understood within the contemporary artistic language. Juta Kivimäe |
| Exhibition history: | 2018 Kumu exhibition The X-Files [Registry of the Nineties] |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Sculpture collection |
| Collection number: | S 1746:1-3 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49764:1-3 |
| File info: |
Source type: digital photography File type: TIF File size: 77.28MB Resolution: 3334*8099px @ 300dpi |
