Marine mine furniture
Mati Karmin is one of the best-known sculptors of Estonia who turned deep-sea mines into artwork though still usable furniture.
The frame of the artpieces is a historical deep-sea mine of AGSB-type, made in Russia in 1942. It was a big galvanic deep-sea mine used to fight submarines. Those mines was still manufactured in the 50-ies.
Mines came from Naissaar Island situated in the Gulf of Finland 15 kilometres away from Tallinn. During the Soviet times there was a large factory for assembling marine mines in the centre of the island and a railway taking directly to the harbour. Naissaar was classified as a secret military facility those times.
When departing in the beginning of 1990s, the Soviet army burned the explosives out of the mines that were stored and in working order, leaving a multitude of cases scattered around. Lots of them were taken to the mainland as scrap-iron during the cleaning of the island. There is still an existing field of mines in Mädasadam as a sight for tourists to see.
Project’s homepage: http://www.marinemine.com
Artists homepage: http://www.karmin.ee
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