{"id":4476,"date":"2026-06-16T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soosterfoundation.org\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2026-06-16T17:50:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T17:50:43","slug":"elu-on-sildade-rajamine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soosterfoundation.org\/en\/elu-on-sildade-rajamine\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLife is the building of bridges\u2026\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is this philosophical, poetic line about? The power of circumstance \u2014 or the power of the human being?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 1967, the exhibition \u201c15 Young Moscow Artists\u201d opened at Il Segno gallery in central Rome. It presented works by artists who were not allowed to exhibit in the USSR \u2014 among them \u00dclo Sooster.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How did these works find their way to Italy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gallery owner and curator Angelica Savinio de Chirico travelled to Moscow, where she met with unrecognised artists. The selected works \u2014 \u201csuitcase-sized\u201d pieces \u2014 were secretly carried out by foreign journalists and diplomats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo be honest, I do not know what place these artists occupy or what they represent in the artistic life of the Soviet capital. Yet I believe they are artists who, through their freshness and authenticity, deserve our full attention,\u201d Angelica Savinio wrote in the catalogue\u2019s introduction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exhibition was a success. Critics saw strength and inner freedom in the works of the young artists, and in \u00dclo Sooster\u2019s graphic art, the continuation of European Surrealism and the metaphysical tradition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Moscow, the artists were denounced, but the matter did not lead to arrests. The practice of illegally sending works to the West continued\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now \u2014 pay attention! The gallery owner was the niece of one of \u00dclo Sooster\u2019s favourite artists, Giorgio de Chirico. 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