This ambitious international project is focused on the creative dialogue between works by Italian and Estonian artists in the second half of the 1980s. The exhibition presents the Estonian audience with a representative survey of works from private Italian collections and museums that were created by the Transavantgarde group, which was formed in Italy in the late 1970s. The works are displayed side by side with works by Raoul Kurvitz and Urmas Muru, who renewed the Estonian art scene in the second half of the 1980s. Although born on the other side of the Iron Curtain, Kurvitz and Muru’s Calm Expressionism – as the artists themselves called it – is like a northern reflection of Italian Transavantgarde.

Image: Enzo Cucchi, Drunken Music (Musica Ebbra), 1982. Private collection