Eesti kunsti oksjonid

Bronze. 1990s.
Signature: E. VIIES

Just as Ülo Sooster is a great name in Estonian modernist painting and graphic art, Edgar Viies (1931-2006) is a great name in modernist sculpture. They are creators of equal stature in their respective fields. In the 1960s, Viies created his most innovative and radical abstract sculptures, giving Estonian sculpture an international modernist formal language, together with Olav Männ.

Viies was interested in experimenting with and combining very different materials. Since the early 1990s, Viies has also created small-scale objects in bronze. “Dodecaphonic” consists of both ready-mades and bronze castings. Interpreting the radical direction of Western classical music at the time, which was a kind of musical equivalent of abstract art, he gives a congenial sculptural counterpart to the dodecaphonic music that excited young musicians and progressive audiences.

Text: Harry Liivrand