Eesti Kunstimuuseum in Tallinn

* A half-year after it opened its doors, Sergiusz Michalski has visited Pekka Vapaavuori's Eesti Kunstimuuseum in Tallinn, and was especially taken with the epoch from 1900 to 1960. "Despite being on the outskirts of political and artistic life, this small country managed in this time to reach a very high artistic level in several stylistic areas, for example expressive symbolism, the new objectivity (Felix Randel) and abstraction (Arnold Akberg). In addition, many figurative paintings of the 30s are on a par with the best in Europe. The threat of the late 30s and the war are reproduced in expressive cafe and interior scenes, in which a leaden feeling of fear seems to resonate throughout the room." See our feature on the KUMU, "Tallinn's art rumour."