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29/6/2011

Marjukka Vainio

Gallery Taik, Berlin

Gallery TAIK is delighted to present the first solo exhibition of Finnish artist Marjukka Vainio in Berlin. The exhibition “Kimono” presents works from the series “Red” (2006-2010), “Birch” (2006-2010) as well as various other still lifes by the Helsinki School artist. Reception will be held with the artist on June 30th, 2011. The profoundly aesthetical works of Marjukka Vainio consist of the interplay between light and shadow, darkness and luminious colours. Vainio documents the world of plants not only to accentuate the beauty of their life forms but also to create a pictorial allegory for the cycles of life and death. Strongly inherent to her still lives is the idea of momentariness as it has been developed in Dutch “vanitas-stilleven” paintings since the 17th century. Unlike Karl Blossfeldt´s objective documentations of plants, Marjukka Vainio´s floral compositions are arranged in a very poetic manner enhacing them with a highly painterly character.

In her series “Red” Vainio exposes the entire microcosm of the China rose. Showing the smallest details of the plants, the Finnish artist unfolds the hidden and unseen, giving it an own visible presence. The elusive instant of the uniquely folded petals of the flower was captured in the moment of visibleness before it vanished. Vainio´s carefully composed motifs of birch branches – resembling of flashes from a lightning – are like adumbrated gestures that indicate the course of the departed. “The title of the exhibition allu des to two areas:”, explains the artist, “the world of plants – a theme with which I have already worked for some time – and oriental aesthetics, which have a history going back thousands of years.” Having worked with plants motifs since the 1980s, Marjukka Vainio returns for the works of the “Kimono” exhibition to the experimetal colour techniques that she developed at the end of 1980s and during the 1990s. Hence the works in the exhibition have been produced with various methods, e.g. silver-dye-bleach as well as giclée prints.

Marjukka Vainio was born in Renko (Finland) in 1953. She lives and works in Hämeenlinna (Finland). Vainio graduated from the University of Arts and Design in Helsinki with a Master of Arts in 1998. Her works have been presented since the 1980s in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe, Russia and USA. In 2003, she was awarded with the Suomi-prize and in 2006 she received an award for the finest book of the year with her monographic publication titled "Light of the Earth". That same year she held a retrospective exhibition in the Finnish Museum of Photography. Her works are included in such collections as the Finnish Museum of Photography, the Art Collections of the State of Finland, Parliament of Finland as well as private collections in Europe, Jordan and USA. Vainio’s works have been published in several artistic books and they will also be included in the upcoming catalog “Helsinki School Vol. 4: A Female View”.

Image: Red II, 2006-2010, Pigment print, Diasec, 68 x 68 cm

Opening: 30. June 2011, 7-9pm Reception with the artist.

Gallery TAIK
Bergstr. 22, Berlin - Mitte
Hours: Tue-Sat 12-6pm and upon request
Admission Free

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