Olav Maran
(1933)
Still-Life with a Ladle and an Egg. 1993
Oil, canvas. 65 x 91 cm (framed)
price 12 100
The still-lifes of Olav Maran act as a creator of spiritual stability for the viewer. It depicts old, time-tested artefacts that have served man faithfully. These items are not subject to the capitalist economic system, where every new season people are pressured to buy new and even more modern goods and throw away the old. On the one hand, the glowing hen’s egg in the work is a foodstuff, on the other hand, it is an ideal natural design object, the form of which was the origin of the ancient Greek amphora jug type and similar ceramics. The egg also contains a quote – a reference to a recurring image in the paintings and drawings of Olav Maran’s generational colleague Ülo Sooster, which was written about by the New York-based Eastern European art superstar Ilja Kabakov. The warm and hypersensitive colouring of the painting instills security and endurance in time.