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9/2/2012

Two exhibitions

Pori Art Museum, Pori

The New Generation exhibition and urban art project showcases street artists whose work has spread around the world. With top names of European talents, as well as artists from USA and Iran. They will create works in the galleries as well as public outdoor spaces. Maire Gullichsen and Modernism series: the exhibition showcases transitional periods in modernism as they appear in op, pop and postmodern art.


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Street Art - The New Generation
Hall, Lobby, Sculpture Garden, public places in Pori

Artists:
Blu, Bujahuli, C.Finley, Dolk, Egs, Eyesaw, Frank, Icy & Sot, Invader, Jussi TwoSeven, Magda Sayeg -Knitta, Please, Lapro & Xeugux (Multicoloured Dreams), LA-Tino & P.A.Roni, M-city, Mentalgassi, Otto Maja, Toasters, Slinkachu, Anton Wiraeus.

Street art has been part of the history of art for centuries. From the very beginning, it has always been unofficial, anonymous, independent and public. The Street Art – The New Generation exhibition and urban art project showcases street artists whose work has spread around the world. Among the featured talents are top names of European street art working in Berlin, London and Paris, as well as artists from Italy, Norway, USA, Iran, Poland, Sweden and Finland. They will create works in the galleries of the Pori Art Museum as well as public outdoor spaces in Pori.

The Italian street artist Blu is known for large-scale wall paintings he has made across Europe, South America and the United States. Blu will paint a public piece in the centre of Pori in May 2012. In February 2012, the famous Norwegian street artist Dolk will create an outdoor piece at the city's Youth Workshop as well as a painting in the Hall at the Pori Art Museum. The exhibition also features the film Living Decay, in which Dolk and another street artist, Pøbel, create paintings on the walls of abandoned houses earmarked for demolition in the Lofoten Islands in Norway. The film was shot by the Italian director Davide Fasolo. The exhibition poster was designed by Eyesaw, a London-based artist known for his bus shelter advertising posters that criticise consumerism.

Invader began his conquest of the world from Paris with Space Invaders figures; his contribution to the show in Pori consists of mosaics and portraits made of Rubik's cubes. The invader figures are from a 1970s pre-pixel and pre-digital video game called Space Invaders. Bringing the aliens from the game alive on the walls of cities as mosaics, Invader has conquered already more than 40 cities all over the world. Also featured in the show is Magda Sayeg, who founded the Knitta, Please knit graffiti group in the USA in 2005. The group began wrapping public architecture and street furniture such as lamps or parking meters with knitted and crocheted material. Taiteilija toimii eräänlaisena ekologisena aktivistina tapetoimalla julkisessa tilassa olevia roskalaatikoita C. Finley is known for her Wallpapered Dumpsters project, which she has realized in the United States and Europe. She transforms dustbins into unexpected beauty and with this activism criticizes consumer culture and promote recycling of waste.

The Polish street artist M-City has created both indoor and outdoor works across the world. He will paint a public work in Pori in May 2012. The German group Mentalgassi cooperated with Amnesty International in London in autumn 2011, and in Pori they will create both an indoor and an outdoor piece in cooperation with Amnesty Finland. The London-based Toasters group, known for their flying toasters, will create a piece on the windows of the museum. Their film Everywhere will be premiered at the opening of the exhibition. The artist Slinkachu whose works feature miniature figurines involved in all kinds of situations in the streets, will present photographs and light box pieces. The Iranian brothers Icy & Sot will present a video work, Pavement, shot on streets in Iran.

Finnish street artists featured in the show are Bujahuli, Egs, Frank, Jussi TwoSeven, LA-Tino, P.A.Roni, Otto Maja, the Finland-Swedish artist Anton Wiraeus, and Lapro and Xeugux from the group Multicoloured Dreams. Multicoloured Dreams is a street art collective formed by eight artists and art educators. The purpose of their street art happenings is to enliven the urban environment with legal street art and to provide opportunities for people to change their own living environment. The Finnish artists will create works both indoors and outdoors. The façade of the museum will be painted in March 2012.

In co-operation with:
Amnesty International Finnish section, Andipa Gallery (London), Asunto oy Porin Antinkatu 12, Make Your Mark Garage / Gallery (Helsinki), Myymälä2 (Helsinki), Finnish–Norwegian Culture Institute (Helsinki), Royal Norwegian Embassy (Helsinki), Youth Workshop of the City of Pori, City of Pori – Town Planning Division, City of Pori - Technical Services Centre, Porin Puuvilla/Renor, Veikko Lehti Oy, VR.

More information:
Pia Hovi-Assad, Exhibition Curator, tel. +358 (0)44 701 1089 pia.hovi-assad@pori.fi

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Op – Pop – Post. Maire Gullichsen and Modernism series
Project Room

Featured artists: Olle Baertling, Jorma Hautala, Pekka Jylhä, Ville Kirjanen, Jarmo Mäkilä, Eino Ruutsalo, Kimmo Sarje, Marianna Uutinen, Sam Vanni and Victor Vasarely

The exhibition showcases transitional periods in modernism as they appear in op, pop and postmodern art. The works exhibited either have a temporal link to these art movements in Finland, or they contain recognisable stylistic features from them. Building upon pop art, conceptual art and feminist art, postmodernism makes use of concretism and op art through borrowing, playfulness and irony. In addition to works from the collection of the Maire Gullichsen Art Foundation, the exhibition also includes pieces from the Pori Art Museum's collection and deposit collection.

Victor Vasarely (1908–1997) and Olle Baertling (1911–1981) are among the leading figures of concretist art. Their work played an important role in the formation of op art, which had its roots in the colour theories of Josef Albers and optical experiments of the Bauhaus school. Op art drew inspiration from the tradition of concretist art, wherein a work of art is made of colours and simple forms, flat surfaces. Op art aimed to create an illusion of movement on the painted canvas. Throbbing optical illusions were constructed using tensions between lines, surfaces, repeating geometric shapes and the juxtaposition of colours. Victor Vasarely was an important artistic influence for Sam Vanni (1908–1992) in the 1950s and 60s. In the painting Suuri Fragmentti I (Great Fragment I), the modernist Jorma Hautala (b. 1941) uses intersecting colour planes to create an illusion of movement in space.

The popularity of op art had a great influence on the imagery and effects in popular culture, such as garment patterns and record covers. Pop art of that period adopted familiar imageries from popular culture, such as comics and advertisements, and also made use of everyday visual elements and objects more generally. The period of pop art in Finland remained relatively short, yet it signalled a new kind of appropriation of everyday things in art. Pop art paved the way for the cultural concept of postmodernism and for many aspects of contemporary art. Jarmo Mäkilä (b. 1952) uses pop imagery in his painting Bdam (1979). The treatment of subject matter is characteristic to pop art: the affinity to comics and the depersonalisation of brushwork through the use of uniform, bright surfaces of colour.

Postmodernism is not a genre or style in art. It denotes a new kind of attitude towards the preceding period of modernism. Postmodern art is pluralistic and allows multiple interpretations. The artists took the freedom to use the history of art as their material, which in Finland in particular appeared in the form of visual borrowing. Kimmo Sarje (b. 1951) is known for works which investigate the myths of modernism and politics. The works Triptych (1993) and Diptych (1996) in the exhibition comment on the history of art by borrowing and combining the classical Greek Corinthian capital and the vertical stripes typical of the work of the American expressionist Barnett Newman. Marianna Uutinen (b. 1961) creates a parody of the masculinity of modernism through theatrical and exaggerated gestures. The work by the young contemporary artist Ville Kirjanen (b. 1984) uses bold transformations to comment upon the sculpture of antiquity, restoring to the present imageries and palettes reminiscent of pop art. The work is owned by the artist.

More information about the exhibition:
Mirja Ramstedt-Salonen, mirja.ramstedt-salonen@pori.fi / +358 (0)44 701 1119.
Anni Venäläinen, anni.venalainen@pori.fi / +358 (0)44 701 7601.

Media conference 9 February 2012 from 11.00-13.00
Opening 10 February 2012 at 18.00
Opening club 10 February 2012 at 20.00

Pori Art Museum
Eteläranta, 28100 Pori
Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday 11am to 6pm
Wednesdays 11am to 8pm
Free general tours of the exhibitions on Wednesdays at 6pm.
Closed on Mondays
Entrance fees:
3,5 / 1,5 / 1 Eur Family ticket 7 Eur

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