Urmas Ploomipuu 1942–1990 Watch House. 1971

Bottom left: "Watchtower" (etching, mezzotinto)

Bottom right: UPlomipuu 71

Typical of Urmas Ploomipuu's works, we see here also the building and the so-called signature characteristic developed by the artist, a fine grid. It stems from pop art. The abstract surfaces give a hint of the modern design characteristic of the 1970s, two figures stand in the doorway of the guard house. And that's it. At the same time, a mysterious atmosphere surrounds the work, we do not know who these men are and why they are standing in the doorway. The painter Tõnis Saadoja, who discovered and studied the artist's work, and has curated several exhibitions of Ploomipuu (in the KUMU Art Museum and in the Rüki Gallery in Viljandi), calls him one of the most chic representatives of Estonian pop art of the 1970s, and one can probably agree with that.