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SUMMER 2008: LEILA TANSKANEN
Leila Tanskanen is Art Map summer guest both in the web and in the Ulalla-gallery in Ukkola.
"In the heart of the forest – perception
and experience of landscape turn
into an image.
Could the images of past
prevent us from seeing
the true nature of our
present day environment?"
Leila Tanskanen
Ylä-Kolintie 14 as. 2
83960 Koli
Finland
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MARCH 2008: HALIFAX ART MAP
please take a look at
Halifax Art Map.
There´s life also
on the west side
of the Atlantic.
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JANUARY 2008: LEENA NYLANDER
Graphic artist, video and word artist
Can you hear the sound of Manuela Wiesler´s flute from the slopes of Mount Esja? The compositions was dedicated to her by Torkell Sigurbjörnsson. In April 2007 only the mountains and the listeners are there and by the Christmas the flutist has moved to another world.
On my way I meet openness and the forms of landscape that people grab with their fingers and toes... If the mountains are not bigger than hillocks, are we even ment to be seen?
I do not have the power to make things possible. But I can offer a piece of uncontrollability. This is ment for you also – take what you like. Not obeying wishes and giving away everything at hand is a sort of wealth. Maybe it is also meaningful to hear only for yourself and reflect it faintly over the near surroundings.
Greetings!
Leena
Lehmo, Kontiolahti, Finland
More information: http://leenanylander.net
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DECEMBER 2007: INGER SÖDERGREN
ceramic artist
I explore the contrasts between tranquillity and motion, uncertainty and security, boredom and total chaos. The objects are loaded with energy by a combination of slow, controlled handwork and rapid, unpredictable smoke-firing.
My latest works deal with memories of people, lovers and other friends.
Inger Södergren
Grönedegatan 10
590 40 Kisa
Sweden
more: www.ingersodergren.com
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NOVEMBER 2007: CHRISTINA WASSBERG
I made a three-month visit to China in 2006, thanks to a Swedish foundation Västra Götalands Kulturnämnd. I worked in Kunming in a studio situated in an industrial building where there were also Chinese artists working. I was greatly inspired by 4000 years old book “I Ching” which is based on taoism. It has resemblance to Confucius´s well known saying “You can never step into the same river twice”.
I made paintings every day for a thirty-day period. I painted with pigment ink on rice paper. It was like a ritual to me – or like writing a diary. The impressions of the Chinese surroundings and the daily portion of the book I Ching appeared to me like two dimensions of one new experience. Here are some paintings from my China Diary.
Yours, Christina
Torggatan 14
59040 Kisa
Sverige
email: christina.wassberg(at)comhem.se
tel. +4673 7758627
A link to some more works
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OCTOBER 2007: SILJA AHOLA
Silja Ahola
architect, artist
Born in 1943 in Oulu
I am at my best in printmaking. My favorite techniques are woodcut and different types of monotype. Lately I have been interested in themes of nature and environment.
I also make artist books. I am a member of group Biblioteko. The other members are Anu Torikka, Leena Nylander, Marja Purto and Arja Valkonen-Goldblatt. The group´s pages can be found in the web in www.biblioteko.net. There you can find our artist books.
Greetings
Silja Ahola
Raatteentie 38
90140 Oulu
Finland
Tel. +358 50 5241943
silja.ahola(at)gmail.com
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SEPTEMBER 2007: PASQUALE MUSELLA
Pasquale Musella
Conservator, artist
Born in Naples 2.1.1954
I met Pasquale just by accident on my last day of vacation in Naples in May. I spotted a strange statue made of newspapers in a cafe entrance (photo). I tried to ask the bartender about the statue with no success - poor skills in Italian language... Suddenly Pasquale popped in, we had a conversation about his works and agreed on having him as a guest in these pages.
Pasquale works in the National Archeological Museum in Naples as a conservator of mosaics of Pompeii. Most of the works presented here are paper mosaics. The materials of the mosaics do have a resemblance to the subject of the work - for example in the work 18 real estate announcements of newspapers. Look and see.
Juha-Pekka Vartiainen
Contact information:
Strettola s. Anna alle Paludi 27,
Napoli 80142
musella54(at)virgilio.it
tel. 3391634829.
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AUGUST 2007: HUUB MIKX
Gold- and silversmith, autonomous artist
Born in Rotterdam 1949
Mostly I make jewellery of my own design. I work with gold, silver and titanium or other materials – stones, wood, rubber, plastics and all kind of materials. I like precious stones (except diamonds) more than synthetic ones.
The artworks I make are much bigger than the jewellery. My ideas come mostly from things that disturb me, for example in the newspapers or on television. I work with steel and wood and all kinds of materials I happen to find. A big bird made of iron and wood stays in Revonkylä, Finland. At home I made a big Icarus, a human figure of oak wood and car glass, with a span of 3,5 meters. In the work Ins Allah (“when it is Gods will”) I used blood and oil and an Arabic text for peace. The work “One way to paradise” (2003) is a self bomber jacket.
Huub Mikx
C.T. Storkstraat 31
7553 AP Hengelo
The Netherlands
Tel.+31 74 2430267
huubmikx(at)planet.nl
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JUNE 2007: ANNE PEHKONEN
I am a Finnish visual artist. I live in Niva, a small village outside Joensuu city in eastern Finland, near the border of Russia. I work with used and discarded materials and natural materials. I also make performances, installations, videotapes, paintings, prints, drawings and photographs. In my work I combine the aesthetics of old objects and their previous histories with psychoanalytical interpretation of human life.
Greetings Anne Pehkonen
Contact:
Anne Pehkonen
pehkan(at)luukku.com
tel +358 500 629 751
Additional information
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MAY 2007: ODD DANCE
ODD DANCE theatre group from St. Petersburg has created a Russian interpretation of Butoh-dance. The group has been founded in 2002 by Natalya Zhestovskaya, Grigory Glazunov and Anna Semenova.
Butoh is an experimental dance form originally born in Japan in 1960’s. It has reached out to the world and taken new forms in various countries. Butoh is an explosive form of performance art that crosses borders between theatre and dance. It is a courageous effort to translate the unconscious into the language of theatre, dance and performance art. The aim is to open eyes to see the deepest mystics and blackness of our minds.
Contact:
Natalya Zhestovskaya
Phone: +7 821 712 46 92
+7 904 558 75 26
Email: odd-dance(at)mail.ru
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MARCH 2007: TIINA ÉNO
I usually end up in abstract expression, though I can
find traces of events of my own life after the paint
has dried. Some paintings surprise me by telling
a forgotten tale or reminding of a forgotten moment.
To me painting is like endlessly writing a doctoral
thesis, never getting it finished.
Greetings Tiina Éno, painter
Pengerkatu 15 A 32
00530 Helsinki
Finland
tel. +38 9 735 737
gsm +358 53 634 748
You can find my works through these links:
Taidemaalariliitto (Finnish painters´union)
Helsingin taiteilijaseura (Artists association of Helsinki)
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FEBRUARY 2007: PETER HOOGERS
Hello my name is Peter Hoogers. I’m a Dutch artist and I am very grateful to be invited to be the guest of the month.
In the summer of 2005 I visited Finland for the first time after an invitation by Merja Malkki. In February 2006 we worked together in her studio in Revonkylä.The works we did together were exhibited in Hengelo (the Netherlands) in October 2006. This month I will visit your beautiful country again and I hope not for the last time.
Something about the works:
I enjoy the aspect of losing control. Being lead by the dripping paint, and try to get hold on what’s happening. Sometimes I take an object and another object and do something with it, and then do something else with it, then something else, and then I get bored Each work I make is an experiment. Sometimes let by a theme and sometimes not. I’m not making art to please other people, I just want to surprise myself, but when people enjoy my work I feel useful.
If you want to see more of my works please check my site: www.peterhoogers.nl
Peter Hoogers
Eendrachstraat 1
7553 AW Hengelo
The Netherlands
+31(0)742776881
info(at)peterhoogers.nl
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JANUARY 2007: MAIJA HOLMA
Stilleben
The world is fragile: materia, in which we attach our form of living, is constantly breaking in pieces. I’m trying to catch the world in several ways: By photographing the material under the process of changing and the traces of human work in it, by collecting pieces that have been left aside from the cycle and printing photographs on them, and by capturing sudden passing moments, where the world can show itself as new.
Maija Holma
tel. +358 (0)50 463 7113
naulasaari(at)gmail.com
web: www.kolumbus.fi/naulasaari/index.htm
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DECEMBER 2006: JUHA-PEKKA VARTIAINEN
I sometimes look at the world through a lens.
The series presented here was photographed
on the 16th of September 2006 in Salla, Lapland.
The idea was to capture reflections and transparency.
The subjects began to multiply and arrange in layers.
Maybe this could be called natural photography, but
to me the images represent portraits or beginnings of stories.
Nothing is alone.
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Juha-Pekka Vartiainen
Pohjantie 111
81200 Eno
juha-pekka.vartiainen(at)jns.fi
Series "No need to be alone"
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NOVEMBER: INGVILL MAUS
The main topic in my artwork is space, mass, and elements such as air and water. I have worked on this in different techniques and materials, but my favourite technique is printmaking. Here I have experimented with collography, and developed ways of working with tones within a colour, that gives a mezzotint looking result. At the moment I am working on an installation with unlimited space as the theme. This will be the final project of my master degree. It will be on display in the Gallery of Oslo City Hall in the spring of 2007, together with my thesis on this project, so please feel welcome!
Ingvill Maus
ingvillm(at)hotmail.com
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SEPTEMBER 2006: VLADIMIR ZORIN
When we left the natural world we created a world of our own. Today these two worlds exist side by side practically independently. But it is impossible to think that there would be no interference between the worlds though signs of interference cannot be seen and ways of interference cannot be guessed. The breakthrough could lead to birth of a new world which combines the qualities of both. I bring out my vision of the breakthrough.
Vladimir Zorin
Parfenova str., 6 – 20,
185011 Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia
E-mail: vladimirzorin(at)sampo.ru
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