Toomas Mikk
Furnace
| Artist: | Toomas Mikk (1960 - ) |
| Title: | Furnace |
| Date: | 1997 |
| Technique: Material: |
metal, oil paint |
| Height (cm): | 185.0 |
| Width (cm): | 90.0 |
| Depth (cm): | 70.0 |
| Description: | Toomas Mikk's installation is primarily based on a generally comprehensible idea of humanity. Human relationships with nature, time, history or human forces are usually solved by simple means and in a way that is aesthetically easy to understand. The installation “Heating" shows an old, half-open, outer shell of a furnace, on the verge of disappearance from contemporary interiors, with a warm reddish light shimmering through its cracks. The furnace appears as a source of warmth and light, both essential in the human world, but also as an ‘alter ego' of an aging individual. However old and worn out the earthly shell of an individual may be, “the inner light", the will to live and spiritual light continue to shine. Even if it is a lifeless object, there still is a positive emotional space, an atmosphere of comfort around the heated furnace. Juta Kivimäe |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Sculpture collection |
| Collection number: | S 1749 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49800 |
| Muis reference | http://muis.ee/museaalView/1445552 |
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