Art

Exhibition in the Turku Archipelago presented in the USA

Contemporary Art Archipelago (CAA) was invited to The Armory Show in New York and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge in March 2012.

At the annual art fair Armory Show artistic director Taru Elfving presented the CAA exhibition project, realized as part of the Turku 2011 program.

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Carl Larsson (1853-1919), Vanha muuri, Grèz-sur-Loing / Gamla muren, Grèz-sur-Loing / The Old Wall, Grèz-sur-Loing, 1885

Carl Larsson's endearing world in the Turku Art Museum until January 8th

The endearing world of the Swedish master Carl Larsson (1853–1919) comes alive in an exhibition in the Turku Art Museum from 16 September 2011 to 8 January 2012. Carl Larsson – Dreams of Harmony depicts the influence of the artist’s family and surroundings on his work.

The exhibition especially focuses on early paintings made in the village of Grèz-sur-Loing in France and on works created in the Carl Larson’s home in Sundborn, in the Dalarna region of Sweden. The artist captured the character of both locations and their everyday life in romanticised rural portrayals whose douceur de vivre, sweetness of life, can leave no viewer cold.

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Pudelma

2011 leaves permanent marks on the cityscape

Turku's year as the European Capital of Culture is coming to an end. Many events were unique, but several environmental artworks have changed the urban environment permanently.

The latest artwork of the Capital of Culture year designed for a public space was unveiled on Saturday 18 December as part of the Thank You weekend. Mater marium by artist Tarja Ervasti highlights the mouth of the River Aura in a novel fashion, bringing the 50-year-old crane back to life.

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Mater marinum

Revamped landmark for the banks of River Aura

A new public art installation, Mater marium, will be unveiled along Aura River to mark the closing weekend of Turku's Capital of Culture year on Saturday December 17th. Artist Tarja Ervasti has designed the work of art on the site of the protected Wärtsilä crane. The work of art includes the elements of illumination, video art and stone sculpture.

- The starting points for the piece lie in Turku’s long history of work at the docks. According to the idea, the crane became transformed into a mother figure holding on to the memories of ships she has waved off into the world, says artist Tarja Ervasti.

- For decades, the cranes have reminded of the shipbuilding traditions on Aura River, and now Mater marium will be a memorial for future generations of an outstanding Capital of Culture year, states Cay Sevón, Managing Director of Turku 2011 Foundation.

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BLACKMARKET expert number 1: Signmark

It is time to open the last window of BLACKMARKET -calendar!

Organised today at the Turku Volunteer Fire Department building, BLACKMARKET No. 14 speaks of quietness and silence. Finns are often considered as people with a special talent for and experience in keeping quiet. At BLACKMARKET, you can eavesdrop on them talking about quietness and silence. You can drop by at the free event any time between 6 pm and 10:33 pm, Welcome!

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BLACKMARKET experts number 5: Family Lempinen

Five more days to BLACKMARKET! We are now publishing experts every day until the event. BLACKMARKET no 14 presents for the first time whole family as experts: mother, father and daughter from the family Lempinen.

Antti Lempinen (M.Sc.) is mathematician, physician and private researcher who teaches at School of Engineering in Aalto University. He is specialized in nuclear waste disposal quantitative safety assessment, bentonite buffer computer simulations and researching energy politics. He has worked for Posiva Ltd., Government nuclear waste research fund and Greenpeace international.
What we know about deep geological disposal of spent nuclear fuel - and what we do not know

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Esko Valtaoja (on the left) ponders the silence of space in BLACKMARKET

BLACKMARKET expert number 8: Esko Valtaoja

Eight more days to BLACKMARKET! We are now publishing one expert every day until the event!

Esko Valtaoja is an astronomer, writer, a preacher of the messages of science and art-gallery assistant. He also enjoys walking round art galleries. He likes to live in the mddle ground between art and science, reality and fantasy, joy and sorrow, silence and noise, where everything really interesting always happens.
Why is space silent?

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Jedi and amiraali Ackbar

Star Wars: Uncut took over Logomo

Based on American Casey Pugh’s idea and realised by fans, the Star Wars: Uncut film was shown in Turku on 8 October. In addition to the film, the day’s programme at Logomo included other winning entries from the Live 2011 Grand Prix media art competition. The evening concluded with performances by the bands Desert Planet and X-Rust.

Last year, technology guru Casey Pugh won the Participative Media category of the Turku 2011 Foundation’s media art competition. In the Star Wars: Uncut (SWU) project, Pugh cut the first Star Wars episode, Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), into 15-second segments, which Star Wars fans then used to re-create the film by utilising animation, home videos and parody.

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Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See

The artexhibition Close Your Eyes and Tell Me What You See has been constucted at the Observatory and in the old waterstorage. The exhibition will open the 22nd of September.

Curator Johan Sjöström from the Gothenburg Museum of Art has compiled an international exhibition on contemporary art that presents the work of young artists and opens dialogue between the Finnish, Swedish and international art communities.

The exhibition features works from 15 artists from 10 different countries:

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Carl Larsson (1853-1919), Vanha muuri, Grèz-sur-Loing / Gamla muren, Grèz-sur-Loing / The Old Wall, Grèz-sur-Loing, 1885.

Carl Larsson – Dreams of Harmony in Turku Art Museum 16 September 2011 – 8 January 2012

The endearing world of the Swedish master Carl Larsson (1853–1919) comes alive in an exhibition in the Turku Art Museum from 16 September 2011 to 8 January 2012. Carl Larsson – Dreams of Harmony depicts the influence of the artist’s family and surroundings on his work. The exhibition especially focuses on early paintings made in the village of Grèz-sur-Loing in France and on works created in the artist’s home in Sundborn, in the Dalarna region of Sweden. The artist captured the character of both locations and their everyday life in romanticised rural portrayals whose douceur de vivre, sweetness of life, can leave no viewer cold.

It was a turning point for Carl Larsson when he met his future wife, the artist Karin Bergöö (1859–1928), in Grèz-sur-Loing near Paris. Also Larsson’s art found a new direction in Grèz; here he adopted the French plein air painting and painted the first of many intimate pictures of his family. His masterful use of watercolour and sophisticated eye for colour earned Larsson the recognition for which he had yearned for a long time.

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