Ilmar Malin
(1924 - 1994)
The Climb. 1984
Lithograph. Km 27.8 x 18.7 cm (framed)
price 700
Ilmar Malin recognised himself as an artist as a surrealist. This means triggering subconscious or dreamlike processes on paper or canvas, as well as getting rid of internal obsessions. Typically, surrealism in the Soviet Union was despised as a Western artistic current that diverts the attention of socialism builders away from the national focus. Thus, in Tartu in the 1980s, a small group of surrealists emerged who approached art making intellectually (studying theory), which was reflected in their practice. In the late 1980s, it was named PARA. Ilmar Malin was a natural participant in all these endeavours. The work here must be interpreted using the method of free associations.