Estonian Embassy presents "Solomon's Song of Songs", designed by Raul Meel

28.05.2010

The Estonian Ambassador in Latvia Jaak Jõerüüt today presented a gift on behalf of the Embassy to the Latvian National Museum of Art and also to the National Library of Latvia – a book, designed by Raul Meel „Solomon’s Song of Songs”. The gifts were accepted by the director of the museum Māra Lāce and the director of the library Andris Vilks.

Raul Meel, the internationally recognized Estonian artist, has created virtual copies of the Song of Songs in eleven languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Finnish and Estonian – all the versions are presented in the exhibition in Belgium, in the Arts Library of Ghent University along with the other exhibits. The wide exhibition of Raul Meel in Ghent is opened from the April 20^th till May 28^th, 2010.

Currently, the twelfth and the last book is being prepared: the Latvian version. The only printed version available in a form of an exceptional book is the English one. The work in each language is unique, each page revealing a different graphic form.

The different translations of the historical world known Hebrew text, converted through a sublime artistic approach, turn into a masterpiece, which strikes its roots and spreads its branches in the history if national cultures and the history of culture of the whole world, growing through literature, arts, religion, and appearing in the diversity of the contemporary typographic and technological solutions.