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Spring Self-portrait, End of 1950s, Oil on paper 51.7 x 36.7 cm, EKM collection<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

69 years ago, in these gentle early summer days, the prisoner Sooster received his certificate of release. FREE! \u201cProceeds to his place of residence, Tallinn\u201d \u2014 from the Karaganda region with its endless camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He took with him the woman he loved, whom he had met in captivity. And stacks of drawings, works created in the camp. Because his creative freedom \u2014 unlike his physical one \u2014 could not be constrained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00dclo Sooster would spend the next 14 years of his life mostly in Moscow. He would draw, search, and experiment. He would suffer from the absence of exhibitions, viewers, and money. He would earn a living illustrating books \u2014 and in doing so, open a new era in science fiction illustration. But not only that. He would leave behind an astonishing legacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In these light summer days, it feels fitting to share two quotes about \u00dclo Sooster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonhard Lapin, artist:\n\u201cI believe that the full scope and true heights of the artist\u2019s oeuvre are yet to be discovered.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irina Uvarova, art historian:\n\u201cThe blue junipers stiffened in the blue of eternity. Sooster cast them into the initial and final forms of being. They were: cone, cube, sphere. In Versailles, hedges might have been trimmed into such shapes. But Sooster\u2019s were different. Sooster\u2019s junipers grew on an Estonian island \u2014 and on that Estonian island, the world was conceived and completed. Sooster\u2019s junipers were the formula of the universe, traced at the boundary of being and non-being.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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