Ilmar Malin

(1924 - 1994)

Air Shell. 1985

Oil, canvas . 80 x 70 cm (framed)
price 4 300

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The title of the painting sounds like a line of poetry, ambivalent, and the painting itself is also ambivalent. Ilmar Malin was a thinking and theorising artist who was not satisfied with the art of the so-called retina of the eye (art, where the main goal is to appeal only to the eye). For Ilmar Malin, the eye and brain are connected, and what happens in the brain directly affects the processes of vision, which in turn affects the art of painting. In the painting, some kind of physical or biological processes seem to take place that have been captured in a split second. The colouring is relatively turned off to monochrome. From the artistic currents of the 20th century, Ilmar Malin had embraced surrealism – he was one of the leading figures of the surrealist movement in Tartu.

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