ART FROM FINLAND: heinäkuuta 2007

perjantai 27. heinäkuuta 2007

JOUNI KUJANSUU: TYÖMAA, MAISEMA (2006)

Jouni Kujansuu: TYÖMAA, MAISEMA (2006)

torstai 26. heinäkuuta 2007

TEEMU MÄKI: THE STRUGGLE - The Struggle Of Conflicting Values Inside Of A (W)Hole Man (2003)

Teemu Mäki: The Struggle - The Struggle Of Conflicting Values Inside Of A (W)Hole Man (2003)

Overview of the installation, Laznia Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk, Poland, March 2003.

For Elaine Scarry.Multipartite work. Dimensions variable, needs a room with about 80 square meters.Sculptures, found objects, painting, drawings, a shirt, balloons, music and a text.

keskiviikko 25. heinäkuuta 2007

ERKKA NISSINEN: LA FAMILLE CIRÈ ; JAUNE & DES SCIENTIFIQUES OBSÈDÈS SEXUELS (2004)

Erkka Nissinen: La Famille Cirè; Jaune & Des Scientifiques Obsèdès Sexuels (2004)

See also "The Social Construction of Reality" video

BAT & RYYD

Bat & Ryyd

Photo documentation by Jyrki Nissinen

KALERVO PALSA

Kalervo Palsa

(Can someone post us the title and year of this painting...?!)

tiistai 24. heinäkuuta 2007

SAMI KALLINEN: THE JUGGLER (2003)

Sami Kallinen: The Juggler (2003)

(Description from www.montevideo.nl) "The Juggler is dressed in a walkman, shorts and two different beach slippers (on the one it says 'easy', on the other 'busy'). Every day, for many years now, he has been standing under a canopy at the Nederlandse Bank building in Amsterdam. The number of balls and skittles he can keep in the air at the same time commands great respect and admiration. For hours at a time, his sinewy body is an unapproachable fortress of complete concentration.
Kallinen lets him speak. The man gazes into the distance, avoiding the camera, and pontificates in a throaty voice. The way we live is incomprehensible and suffocating, and our systems of moneymaking and business contacts are totally illogical. The world of the others has degenerated because no one can or will ask questions about it. But he did, and the answers taught him that, in order to survive, he had to stay completely out of things. This is why he is now standing, as a living statue, on top of the vaults containing our national gold reserve. Not to beg us to reconsider, but simply, to juggle. Vinken & van Kampen

2003, 07'40'', Finland/The Netherlands"

OTTO KARVONEN: HERE WILL OPEN (2005)

Otto Karvonen: Here Will Open (2005)

Inkjet print on paperGallery Alkovi, Helsinki April 2005

"A text in the window indicating a fictious future function for the space. The text is changed weekly during a period of one month. The first text is in english “HERE WILL OPEN: HELSINKI CHRISTIAN-HINDU DAY-CARE CENTER” and it relates to a recent public debate about the protection of christian values agains alien influences. The debate started when the Finnish minister of culture was visiting Mother Amma in India with her family, thus causing terrible offence to the christian conservative ruling class of Finland. The work generated lots of public reactions; people either wanted to question the possibility of such an institution or wanted to sign their children in the day-care center."

PETRI ESKELINEN: DAYSHINE (2007)

Petri Eskelinen: Dayshine (2007)

150 cm x 150 cm x 30 cm,Acrylic, light, wood, motor, transparent plastic colorsheets.

"Dayshine compresses the time of sunrise and sunset in one minute. Around a round form there is a beam of light circulating and going through the colors of sunrise and sunset. Day in itself is a basic unit, the time of working hours, which has morning and night circulating continuously around it. This is also the place of a viewer, in front of a day, on the spot. Art historically a sunset is one of the greatest cliches, but today it's color is also a meter for the pollution. The more there is red color in sunrises and sunsets, the more there is pollution in the athmosphere."

maanantai 23. heinäkuuta 2007

IC-98: THESES ON THE BODY POLITIC (Vicious Circles 1-3) (2007)

IC-98: THESES ON THE BODY POLITIC (Vicious Circles 1-3) (2007)

Untitled (Vicious Circles 1)digital animation, FullHD, 1920x1200 pix (16:10)35'10'', loop, silent
Untitled (Vicious Circles 2)digital animation, FullHD, 1920x1200 pix (16:10)35'10'', loop, silent
Untitled (Vicious Circles 3)digital animation, FullHD, 1920x1200 pix (16:10)32'32'', loop, silent

"First shown at the Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, 30.3.–20.5.2007,as a cycle of three 24-inch LCD-displays.

The central piece is arevised edition of The Giant of the Forest, completed in 2006.The subtitle is a partial reference to Pentti Haanpää's 1931 novel Noitaympyrä [Vicious Circle], first published in the mid-50's."

ANNELI NYGRENS VIDEOS

Some of Anneli Nygrens videos can be seen here:
http://www.av-arkki.fi/web/index.php?id=25&artist=1363

RIIKO SAKKINEN: WETBACK TOWEL (2006)

Riiko Sakkinen: Wetback Towel (2006)

100 x 106 cm

Embroidery on cotton towel

"Wetback is a derogatory term for a Mexican who illegally enters the United States of America from its southern border, often by either swimming or wading across the Rio Grande. Wet back (Spanish: espalda mojada) is also used in an equally pejorative way in Spain to refer to illegal immigrants from Morocco who cross the Straits of Gibraltar."

TANJA KOPONEN: THEME SONG (2007)

Tanja Koponen: Theme Song (2007)

"On the video Theme Song, originally made by Vito Acconci in 1974, Koponen is listening to music and, in an intrusively intimate way, tempting thevisitor to come next to her. The background music by Maarit Hurmerinta –the Finnish songstress behind many great covers – has its own effect onthe atmosphere. Every now and then Koponen, like Acconci, picks single words or sentences from the songs, adding them to her tempting speech."