Secco
Not under conservation as a cultural monument<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My father went to work in Rapla in May of 1973. I wanted to go with him, but school was in session, which is why I went there in June. The job was finished, broadly speaking. Only a few scaffoldings were still standing \u2013 most had already been removed. I asked my father what I was looking at. He said: \u201cWell look for yourself. An abstract composition. Does the structure remind you of anything?\u201d \u2013 \u201cIt does, that background in the school building on Vanemuise Street has a similar one, wider in the middle and narrowing on the sides.\u201d \u2013 \u201cExactly. Especially the colours of the middle part of that Vanemuise-piece are here too. I actually wanted to create this piece as a fresco. I wanted to try the fresco technique, just once in my life. But it is so physically demanding, I had to abandon the idea.\u201d \u2013 \u201cWhat is a fresco then? What do you mean it\u2019s demanding?\u201d \u2013 \u201cA fresco is a painting done on damp plaster with colours mixed on the spot out of earth pigments. It\u2019s not that the plaster dries up right away but the image should be finished on the fresh plaster in one day. Later corrections are not really allowed. Well, I guess they\u2019re allowed, but then it\u2019s not really a fresco. After that heart disease [my father had a heart attack in 1972] I don\u2019t have the power to rush in the way that a fresco would require.\u201d After my father\u2019s death I found a large amount of various coloured earth pigments in his atelier. I guess they\u2019re probably from that time. \u2013 \u201cAnd how did you make the painting THIS time? Like, with what technique and\u2026\u201d \u2013 \u201cThis is also in a traditional technique, but in a slightly easier one. It\u2019s called a secco. It\u2019s more or less the same, only it is painted on dry plaster instead of damp. I think most murals in Estonia are seccos. I think I\u2019m done for today. I promised you at home that we would visit Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel who live here in Rapla.\u201d \u2013 \u201cAre they far?\u201d \u2013 \u201cI\u2019m not sure but Rapla is small enough that they can\u2019t be too far.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of the monumental artworks created during the Soviet Era have either been completely destroyed (e.g. Ilmar Kruusam\u00e4e and Peeter Allik\u2019s piece in the ale-restaurant Humal), or their context has been altered so much so, that the artwork could have technically survived (e.g. Elmar Kits\u2019s mural in the former restaurant Tarvas) but in reality, the case is different. It is not important that Elmar Kits\u2019s pannel and Ilmar Malin\u2019s series of paintings Lehed ajas<\/em> (\u201cPapers in Time\u201d, created for the newspaper Edasi\/Postimees fireplace room in Tartu), for example, are stored in the repositories of the Estonian National Museum and are therefore preserved. If the location that housed the artwork no longer exists along with its interior, then it is a case of an artwork\u2019s (contextual) destruction. The piece discussed here, located in Rapla, has survived but its condition is not great. Because holes have been made in the artwork\u2019s surface (it is on a plaster wall, after all), and a lighting fixture has been mounted there. It is a shame when pieces initially created for the public are located in an essentially closed-off space. A similar interpretation should be considered regarding the fact that \u2013 as far as I know \u2013 a coffin factory now operates in the hall of the Rapla Road Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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