Abstract Motif

Ülo Sooster created hundreds of sketches based on abstract forms, from which the works exhibited here express a borderline situation where an image is only beginning to emerge. Sooster has been described as a “thinking pencil,” someone who pursued the unveiling of subconscious imagery with programmatic consistency. In the exhibition, we see seismographic outbursts, expressions of calculated spontaneity. Among them is the allegorical Dialogue between two human figures, linking visual form to a pre-linguistic sense of perception. In this work, drawn with just two strokes, we likely see abstracted profiles of the artist himself and his beloved wife, Lidia – hinting at both the potentiality and the cryptic charge of the act of communication.