On October 14, the Vaal Gallery in Tallinn—an establishment elite in every sense of the word—hosted the launch of the album *Cosmologiaal Ulo Sooster* ("In the Cosmology of Ülo Sooster"). Proceeds from its sale will go toward the installation of a monument to the legendary artist in his birthplac
Norton and Nancy Dodge, Kenda and Jacob Bar-Gera, Peter and Irene Ludwig, Eric and Małgorzata Peschler. What did these well-known collectors from America, Germany, and Switzerland have in common?
Work as a set designer at the Maly Theatre, later at the Gogol Theatre. In their tiny semi-basement apartment on Krasina Street, every Tuesday became an open house and salon, crowded with creative people: artists, poets, actors, and directors from the nearby Sovremennik Theatre. Lidia somehow manage
On 23 September, it will be 100 years since the birth of Lidia Sooster (née Serkh). Her 79 years contained enough for several lifetimes...
“At the time when it became possible to speak openly about underground artists, I wrote an article about Ülo Sooster entitled Apple, Fish, Egg...
Christopher Nolan’s film “The Odyssey” is enjoying phenomenal success. Records are being set for both viewership and box-office revenue. The film is being debated by audiences and professional critics alike, across languages and continents.
“The viewer of Surrealist works finds themselves in a state of uncertainty - what in theatre and cinema is called “suspense”. They seem to be at home; they are addressed in the language of homo sapiens. At the same time, the viewer does not know where they are, nor in what language they are being
Ülo Sooster began the works “Landscape with a Fence” and “Landscape with a Clock” in 1958.
St John’s Eve night is approaching. Alongside the villagers gathering around the bonfire, drinking, singing, and jumping over the flames, there are also dances at the village club to the music of the local orchestra - conducted, incidentally, by Johannes Sooster. And of course young Meedi, only f
What is this philosophical, poetic line about? The power of circumstance — or the power of the human being?
Three years ago, the 90-year-old artist Boris Zhutovsky passed away. Tenno Sooster, Ülo Sooster’s son, called him “Boba,” as did other people close to him.
Were Ülo Sooster and Yuri Lotman personally acquainted? We do not have an answer to that question. But they certainly knew of one another.
“A good collection is like a river: once you step into it, you can’t tear yourself away…”
“Despite his great erudition and outstanding ability to theorize, Ülo was a genuine person of feeling - at times surprisingly tender and even sentimental. His greatest love was Hiiumaa, and especially the Pendi farm, whose enchantment seems to have accompanied him until his death.
“Before us is one of the greatest love stories in the world, told in the first person. But… Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante and Beatrice, Tristan and Isolde still somehow faltered before the merciless world - whereas Ülo and Lidia overcame it. A plot worthy of Hollywood…,” - wrote art critic Andrei
Who is a collector? What is their role in art? There are several aphoristic answers: “Collectors are the hidden architects of art.” Or: “Through the practice of collecting, one seeks to overcome the world’s fragmentation and chaos.” Or: “The figure of the collector is central in the history of ar
An open platform for new ideas. That is how the Tartu New Theatre describes itself - and with each production, time and again, it strives to live up to that name. This fully applies to the production Sooster’s School.
It is a well-known view that art—an artist’s own works—is the best monument to them.
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