May 29th
∞06:33 pm, xlartspace
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[ilari hautamäki] [otso-pekka suhonen] [maalauksia] [paintings] [exhibition] [toni ledentsa] [xl art space] [helsinki]
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Ilari Hautamäki & Otso-Pekka Suhonen Maalauksia / Paintings  ––  9.6.–7.7.2012 XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki. Avoinna: ma–pe klo 12–20, la 12–18. / Open: Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18. Tervetuloa avajaisiin perjantaina 8.6. klo 18–21. DJ:nä Travis Vox & Janne X. Avajaisissa esiintyy myös Milesmoren Onni Pirkola, joka esittää valikoituja kappaleita yhtyeen 1.6. julkaistavalta debyyttilevyltä. / Welcome to the opening on Friday 8.6. at 18–21. w/ DJs Travis Vox & Janne X. Also performing at the opening is Onni Pirkola of Milesmore, playing selected songs of the band’s debut album, released on 1.6. : Taidetila XL:n 1-vuotisjuhlanäyttelyssä on esillä tuoreita maalauksia kahdelta nuorelta taiteilijalta, Ilari Hautamäeltä ja Otso-Pekka Suhoselta. Kyseessä on ensimmäinen maalaustaiteeseen keskittyvä näyttely XL:ssä ja sen on kuratoinut Toni Ledentsa. Näyttelyn taiteilijoita yhdistää abstrakti tyyli ja urbaanin ympäristön vaikutteet. Molempien taiteilijoiden työskentelyssä yhdistyy pedantti tarkkuus ja leikkisä spontaanius. Järjen ja intuition yhdistelmistä on syntynyt kauniita ja energisiä teoksia. Taiteilijoista: Ilari Hautamäki on Kuvataideakatemiasta vuonna 2011 valmistunut maalari, jonka työt ovat abstrakteja, maisemallisia maalauksia. Työskentelyssä yhdistyy vapaa tekeminen ja tarkkaan teipillä rajatut alueet. Hän etsii inspiraatiota luonnon kauneudesta, pohjoisista maisemista ja horisonteista, jotka päätyvät urbaaniin ympäristöön, purettuihin rakennuksiin, töhrittyihin seiniin, ihmisen kädenjälkeen. Hautamäkeä kiinnostaa hyvin tehty “huonon” maalauksen estetiikka ja humoristinen lähestyminen abstraktin maalauksen vakavaan kenttään. Maalausprosessi on tärkeä ja haasteellinen. Sen aikana syntyvät energiat ja onnistumisen hetket ovat elintärkeitä. Otso-Pekka Suhonen opiskelee toista vuotta maalauksen osastolla Kuvataideakatemiassa. Hänelle maalaamisessa tärkeintä on tekoprosessi, jonka kesto ja spontaanius usein määrittelevät teoksen. Jotkut maalauksista voivat kätkeä alleen vuosien työn ja kymmeniä kuvia. Nämä kerrokset luovat olennaisen osan valmiiseen maalaukseen. Suhonen hakee inspiraatiota töihinsä muun muassa kaupungin infrastruktuurista, pintojen rappeutumisesta, arkkitehtuurista ja rautateistä. Lisätietoja: toni.ledentsa (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com / The 1-year anniversary exhibition of XL Art Space presents fresh paintings from two young artists, Ilari Hautamäki and Otso-Pekka Suhonen. It is the first exhibition at XL that focuses purely on paintings, curated by Toni Ledentsa. The artists of the exhibition have in common abstract styles and influences of the urban environment. Both artists combine pedantic precision with playful spontaneity. The confluences of reason and intuition have resulted in beautiful and energetic works. About the artists: Ilari Hautamäki is a painter – graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 – whose works are abstract, scenic paintings. His work combines free experimentation and precise areas outlined by tape. He finds inspiration from the beauty of nature, northern landscapes and horizons that end up in urban environments, torn down buildings, spray-painted walls, human touches. Hautamäki is interested in the aesthetics of well made “bad” paintings and humorous approaches to the serious field of abstract painting. The painting process is important and challenging. The energies and moments of success during it are vital for him. Otso-Pekka Suhonen studies painting at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. For him, the most important thing about painting is the process, the length and spontaneity of which often define the work. Some paintings may contain years of work and tens of images. These layers form an essential part of the final painting. Suhonen seeks inspiration from urban infrastructure, the decay of surfaces, architecture and railways, among other things. For more information: toni.ledentsa (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com - - -

Ilari Hautamäki & Otso-Pekka Suhonen

Maalauksia / Paintings  ––  9.6.–7.7.2012

XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki.

Avoinna: ma–pe klo 12–20, la 12–18. / Open: Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18.

Tervetuloa avajaisiin perjantaina 8.6. klo 18–21. DJ:nä Travis Vox & Janne X. Avajaisissa esiintyy myös Milesmoren Onni Pirkola, joka esittää valikoituja kappaleita yhtyeen 1.6. julkaistavalta debyyttilevyltä.

/ Welcome to the opening on Friday 8.6. at 18–21. w/ DJs Travis Vox & Janne X. Also performing at the opening is Onni Pirkola of Milesmore, playing selected songs of the band’s debut album, released on 1.6.

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Taidetila XL:n 1-vuotisjuhlanäyttelyssä on esillä tuoreita maalauksia kahdelta nuorelta taiteilijalta, Ilari Hautamäeltä ja Otso-Pekka Suhoselta. Kyseessä on ensimmäinen maalaustaiteeseen keskittyvä näyttely XL:ssä ja sen on kuratoinut Toni Ledentsa.

Näyttelyn taiteilijoita yhdistää abstrakti tyyli ja urbaanin ympäristön vaikutteet. Molempien taiteilijoiden työskentelyssä yhdistyy pedantti tarkkuus ja leikkisä spontaanius. Järjen ja intuition yhdistelmistä on syntynyt kauniita ja energisiä teoksia.

Taiteilijoista:

Ilari Hautamäki on Kuvataideakatemiasta vuonna 2011 valmistunut maalari, jonka työt ovat abstrakteja, maisemallisia maalauksia. Työskentelyssä yhdistyy vapaa tekeminen ja tarkkaan teipillä rajatut alueet. Hän etsii inspiraatiota luonnon kauneudesta, pohjoisista maisemista ja horisonteista, jotka päätyvät urbaaniin ympäristöön, purettuihin rakennuksiin, töhrittyihin seiniin, ihmisen kädenjälkeen.

Hautamäkeä kiinnostaa hyvin tehty “huonon” maalauksen estetiikka ja humoristinen lähestyminen abstraktin maalauksen vakavaan kenttään. Maalausprosessi on tärkeä ja haasteellinen. Sen aikana syntyvät energiat ja onnistumisen hetket ovat elintärkeitä.

Otso-Pekka Suhonen opiskelee toista vuotta maalauksen osastolla Kuvataideakatemiassa. Hänelle maalaamisessa tärkeintä on tekoprosessi, jonka kesto ja spontaanius usein määrittelevät teoksen. Jotkut maalauksista voivat kätkeä alleen vuosien työn ja kymmeniä kuvia. Nämä kerrokset luovat olennaisen osan valmiiseen maalaukseen. Suhonen hakee inspiraatiota töihinsä muun muassa kaupungin infrastruktuurista, pintojen rappeutumisesta, arkkitehtuurista ja rautateistä.

Lisätietoja: toni.ledentsa (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com

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The 1-year anniversary exhibition of XL Art Space presents fresh paintings from two young artists, Ilari Hautamäki and Otso-Pekka Suhonen. It is the first exhibition at XL that focuses purely on paintings, curated by Toni Ledentsa.

The artists of the exhibition have in common abstract styles and influences of the urban environment. Both artists combine pedantic precision with playful spontaneity. The confluences of reason and intuition have resulted in beautiful and energetic works.

About the artists:

Ilari Hautamäki is a painter – graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2011 – whose works are abstract, scenic paintings. His work combines free experimentation and precise areas outlined by tape. He finds inspiration from the beauty of nature, northern landscapes and horizons that end up in urban environments, torn down buildings, spray-painted walls, human touches.

Hautamäki is interested in the aesthetics of well made “bad” paintings and humorous approaches to the serious field of abstract painting. The painting process is important and challenging. The energies and moments of success during it are vital for him.

Otso-Pekka Suhonen studies painting at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. For him, the most important thing about painting is the process, the length and spontaneity of which often define the work. Some paintings may contain years of work and tens of images. These layers form an essential part of the final painting. Suhonen seeks inspiration from urban infrastructure, the decay of surfaces, architecture and railways, among other things.

For more information: toni.ledentsa (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com

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Apr 29th
∞07:55 pm, xlartspace
[shivers] [väristyksiä] [anniina ala-ruona] [venla helenius] [exhibition] [näyttely] [xl art space] [helsinki]
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SHIVERS/VÄRISTYKSIÄAnniina Ala-Ruona & Venla Helenius5.5.–31.5.2012XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki.Avoinna: ma–pe klo 12–20, la 12–18. / Open: Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18.Tervetuloa avajaisiin perjantaina 4.5. klo 18–21./ Welcome to the opening on Friday 4.5. at 18–21.Shivers/Väristyksiä on Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulussa opiskelevien Anniina Ala-Ruonan (s.1990) ja Venla Heleniuksen (s.1989) ensimmäinen yhteisnäyttely. Viidestä videoteoksesta koostuvassa installaatiossa taiteilijat tarkastelevat lihallisuutta osana ristiriitaista todellisuuttamme.Teos leikittelee himon ja häpeän tematiikalla. Se esittää seksuaalisuuden monisyisenä kulttuurisesti määrittyneenä kudelmana, jossa ihminen esiintyy vuoroin katseen kohteena, vuoroin aktiivisena toimijana. Installaatiossa rakentuva kokonaisuus käsittelee sukupuolisuuteen liittyviä odotuksia ja paineita sekä seksuaalismoraalisten normien luonnetta suhteessa viettiin ja himoon.Ala-Ruonan ja Heleniuksen kuva- ja äänimateriaali peilautuu yhtäältä käsityksiin synnistä ja pyhittämisestä, toisaalta taas mediakuvaston paljaan pinnan kavalkadiin. Henkilökohtaisten pohdintojen lisäksi tekijät ovat käyttäneet tausta-aineistonaan tiukoissa uskonnollisissa yhteisöissä kasvaneiden kokemuksia seksuaali-identiteetin rakentumisesta.Kiitos: Ilmari Arnkil, Juho Gröndahl, Tuomo Helenius, Suvi Kemppainen, Aksa Korttila, Tapani Lundgren, Amanda Manner, Samuli Saarinen, Anna Tuominen./Shivers/Väristyksiä is Anniina Ala-Ruona’s (b. 1990) and Venla Helenius’ (b. 1989) first joint exhibition. The installation consists of five video works, in which the artists address questions of carnality and its presentation as part of our conflicted reality.The work plays with themes of lust and shame. It presents sexuality as a complicated, culturally determined web in which the individual is an object of gaze as well as an active subject. The artists have aspired to understand how gender expectations and pressures and sexual moral norms concerning urge and lust affect our subjectivity.Ala-Ruona’s and Helenius’ visual and audio material reflect upon the notions of sin and sanctification as well as the overflow of bare skin in media imagery. As background material, the artists have used personal ponderings and interviews about the formation of sexual identity with people who have grown up in strictly religious communities.Thanks to: Ilmari Arnkil, Juho Gröndahl, Tuomo Helenius, Suvi Kemppainen, Aksa Korttila, Tapani Lundgren, Amanda Manner, Samuli Saarinen, Anna Tuominen.

SHIVERS/VÄRISTYKSIÄ
Anniina Ala-Ruona & Venla Helenius
5.5.–31.5.2012

XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki.
Avoinna: ma–pe klo 12–20, la 12–18. / Open: Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18.

Tervetuloa avajaisiin perjantaina 4.5. klo 18–21.
/ Welcome to the opening on Friday 4.5. at 18–21.


Shivers/Väristyksiä on Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulussa opiskelevien Anniina Ala-Ruonan (s.1990) ja Venla Heleniuksen (s.1989) ensimmäinen yhteisnäyttely. Viidestä videoteoksesta koostuvassa installaatiossa taiteilijat tarkastelevat lihallisuutta osana ristiriitaista todellisuuttamme.

Teos leikittelee himon ja häpeän tematiikalla. Se esittää seksuaalisuuden monisyisenä kulttuurisesti määrittyneenä kudelmana, jossa ihminen esiintyy vuoroin katseen kohteena, vuoroin aktiivisena toimijana. Installaatiossa rakentuva kokonaisuus käsittelee sukupuolisuuteen liittyviä odotuksia ja paineita sekä seksuaalismoraalisten normien luonnetta suhteessa viettiin ja himoon.

Ala-Ruonan ja Heleniuksen kuva- ja äänimateriaali peilautuu yhtäältä käsityksiin synnistä ja pyhittämisestä, toisaalta taas mediakuvaston paljaan pinnan kavalkadiin. Henkilökohtaisten pohdintojen lisäksi tekijät ovat käyttäneet tausta-aineistonaan tiukoissa uskonnollisissa yhteisöissä kasvaneiden kokemuksia seksuaali-identiteetin rakentumisesta.


Kiitos: Ilmari Arnkil, Juho Gröndahl, Tuomo Helenius, Suvi Kemppainen, Aksa Korttila, Tapani Lundgren, Amanda Manner, Samuli Saarinen, Anna Tuominen.

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Shivers/Väristyksiä is Anniina Ala-Ruona’s (b. 1990) and Venla Helenius’ (b. 1989) first joint exhibition. The installation consists of five video works, in which the artists address questions of carnality and its presentation as part of our conflicted reality.

The work plays with themes of lust and shame. It presents sexuality as a complicated, culturally determined web in which the individual is an object of gaze as well as an active subject. The artists have aspired to understand how gender expectations and pressures and sexual moral norms concerning urge and lust affect our subjectivity.

Ala-Ruona’s and Helenius’ visual and audio material reflect upon the notions of sin and sanctification as well as the overflow of bare skin in media imagery. As background material, the artists have used personal ponderings and interviews about the formation of sexual identity with people who have grown up in strictly religious communities.


Thanks to: Ilmari Arnkil, Juho Gröndahl, Tuomo Helenius, Suvi Kemppainen, Aksa Korttila, Tapani Lundgren, Amanda Manner, Samuli Saarinen, Anna Tuominen.


Apr 07th
∞10:11 pm, xlartspace
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[variations] [eric mutel] [exhibition] [photography] [video] [xl art space] [helsinki]
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VARIATIONSVideo art works by Eric Mutel at XL Art Space12.–28.4.2012 Open Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18. / Avoinna ma–pe klo 12–20, la klo 12–18. Welcome to the exhibition opening on Wednesday 11.4. at 5–8 pm./ Tervetuloa avajaisiin keskiviikkona 11.4. klo 17–20. Eric Mutel (b. 1973, France) has lived and worked in Helsinki forseveral years. In 1997 he graduated from Université Paris 1 and LesGobelins, Ecole de I’image in Paris, and in recent years he hasdeveloped video work at Le Fresnoy, in France (2006) and at KungligaKonsthögskolan, in Stockholm (2007).Mutel’s practice has taken many different forms such as photography, visual art installations, video, set/stage mediums, sculpture, environmental and land art. His interest lies mainly in projects that bridge the gap between visual arts and live stage events and performances. Employing new and experimental technology Mutel focuses on the perception and use of images, memory, body, movement, time, space, energy, tension and force.The exhibition is based on the photographic instant – fixed, frozen,preserved memories – the works are an attempt to set the photograph in motion, to give it depth and volume. In the process, the work becomes a field of inquiry into the science, biology and geology of the image.Photography is treated here as an organic, aqueous, ephemeral, living material. It is handled like a skin, affected by ice, a living memory, a resisting, uncontrollable material, a space of imperceptible movement. Threatened and weakened, destroyed but hyperpreserved, it becomes the raw material of its own evolution and disappearance as it takes part in the thaw of its backing.Mutel has printed the original photographs on liquid emulsion, frozen in ice, and melted down. The photograph itself, by its structure, generates its own destruction. A digital camera has captured, frame by frame, the process of melting.Eric’s website / Ericin verkkosivut: www.ericmutel.comThe exhibition is part of AAVE festival: www.aavefestival.org/ Näyttely on osa AAVE-festivaalia: www.aavefestival.org :: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

VARIATIONS
Video art works by Eric Mutel at XL Art Space
12.–28.4.2012

Open Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18. / Avoinna ma–pe klo 12–20, la klo 12–18.

Welcome to the exhibition opening on Wednesday 11.4. at 5–8 pm.
/ Tervetuloa avajaisiin keskiviikkona 11.4. klo 17–20.


Eric Mutel (b. 1973, France) has lived and worked in Helsinki for
several years. In 1997 he graduated from Université Paris 1 and Les
Gobelins, Ecole de I’image in Paris, and in recent years he has
developed video work at Le Fresnoy, in France (2006) and at Kungliga
Konsthögskolan, in Stockholm (2007).

Mutel’s practice has taken many different forms such as photography, visual art installations, video, set/stage mediums, sculpture, environmental and land art. His interest lies mainly in projects that bridge the gap between visual arts and live stage events and performances. Employing new and experimental technology Mutel focuses on the perception and use of images, memory, body, movement, time, space, energy, tension and force.

The exhibition is based on the photographic instant – fixed, frozen,
preserved memories – the works are an attempt to set the photograph in motion, to give it depth and volume. In the process, the work becomes a field of inquiry into the science, biology and geology of the image.

Photography is treated here as an organic, aqueous, ephemeral, living material. It is handled like a skin, affected by ice, a living memory, a resisting, uncontrollable material, a space of imperceptible movement. Threatened and weakened, destroyed but hyperpreserved, it becomes the raw material of its own evolution and disappearance as it takes part in the thaw of its backing.

Mutel has printed the original photographs on liquid emulsion, frozen in ice, and melted down. The photograph itself, by its structure, generates its own destruction. A digital camera has captured, frame by frame, the process of melting.


Eric’s website / Ericin verkkosivut: www.ericmutel.com

The exhibition is part of AAVE festival: www.aavefestival.org
/ Näyttely on osa AAVE-festivaalia: www.aavefestival.org

:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::


Mar 25th
∞10:50 pm, xlartspace
[peer-to-peer review] [hiap] [kriss salmanis] [anna-stina treumund] [antanas gerlikas] [ilari laamanen] [switch] [xl art space] [helsinki]
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Peer-to-Peer Review at XL Art Space, Thursday 29.3.2012, 17-20h. HIAP’s (Helsinki International Artist Programme) collegial format, Peer-to-Peer Review, will take over XL Art Space on Thursday, March 29, with presentations of three new artistic projects by HIAP artists-in-residence Krišs Salmanis, Anna-Stina Treumund and Antanas Gerlikas. Krišs Salmanis (b. 1977), Latvia, is going to present the fruits of his three-month residency at HIAP Suomenlinna realized in the frame of the Paths Crossing project, which is run by HIAP and supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union: “Since it is a production residency, then that is what I did - produced a new animated loop from a loosely related series of video works called Moving Landscape. It might be characteristic of my work altogether, for I have chosen an unexciting subject, taken it through an exciting process in order to achieve a result that is again rather unexciting.”Anna-Stina Treumund (b. 1982), Estonia, will talk about the project she is currently working on. Her work is about lesbian gaze - if it exists and how to define and visualize it. The project is constructing the missing lesbian herstory of Estonia and of Baltic-German past.Antanas Gerlikas (b. 1978), lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. “The main conceptual device of my oeuvre is the revisiting of the concept of a museum by looking at it from the perspective of, on one hand, an artwork, and on another, daily life. For this aim I consider an artwork as a semi-autonomous element dependent on the museum’s discipline - its spatial, temporal and ideological conventions, references, construction of history, etc. For this reason I am also interested in how these conventions are acted out in daily life. With this in mind, my aim is to separate the value of an artwork from an institution (the museum) and to transfer it into some new forms of life.”Beside the artists’ presentations, artist and curator Ilari Laamanen will present Switch – the exhibition currently (until 31.3.) on show at XL Art Space. XL is an experimental art space coordinated by independent curators Toni Ledentsa, Ilari Laamanen, Christine Langinauer and Jenni Nurmenniemi, who will also be present in the event. For more info and images, see HIAP’s website: www.hiap.fi/event/peer-peer-review-xl-art-space :: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

Peer-to-Peer Review at XL Art Space, Thursday 29.3.2012, 17-20h.

HIAP’s (Helsinki International Artist Programme) collegial format, Peer-to-Peer Review, will take over XL Art Space on Thursday, March 29, with presentations of three new artistic projects by HIAP artists-in-residence Krišs Salmanis, Anna-Stina Treumund and Antanas Gerlikas. 

Krišs Salmanis (b. 1977), Latvia, is going to present the fruits of his three-month residency at HIAP Suomenlinna realized in the frame of the Paths Crossing project, which is run by HIAP and supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union: “Since it is a production residency, then that is what I did - produced a new animated loop from a loosely related series of video works called Moving Landscape. It might be characteristic of my work altogether, for I have chosen an unexciting subject, taken it through an exciting process in order to achieve a result that is again rather unexciting.”

Anna-Stina Treumund (b. 1982), Estonia, will talk about the project she is currently working on. Her work is about lesbian gaze - if it exists and how to define and visualize it. The project is constructing the missing lesbian herstory of Estonia and of Baltic-German past.

Antanas Gerlikas (b. 1978), lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. “The main conceptual device of my oeuvre is the revisiting of the concept of a museum by looking at it from the perspective of, on one hand, an artwork, and on another, daily life. For this aim I consider an artwork as a semi-autonomous element dependent on the museum’s discipline - its spatial, temporal and ideological conventions, references, construction of history, etc. For this reason I am also interested in how these conventions are acted out in daily life. With this in mind, my aim is to separate the value of an artwork from an institution (the museum) and to transfer it into some new forms of life.”

Beside the artists’ presentations, artist and curator Ilari Laamanen will present Switch – the exhibition currently (until 31.3.) on show at XL Art Space. XL is an experimental art space coordinated by independent curators Toni Ledentsa, Ilari Laamanen, Christine Langinauer and Jenni Nurmenniemi, who will also be present in the event.


For more info and images, see HIAP’s website: www.hiap.fi/event/peer-peer-review-xl-art-space


:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::


Mar 05th
∞08:03 am, xlartspace
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[teletext] [art] [festival] [ITAF] [FixC] [YLE] [teksti-tv] [xl art space]
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International Teletext Art Festival - opening event / avajaistapahtuma — Thursday 8.3., 18–21. TELETEXT -ilta, taidetila XL / Indian SummerKansainvälisen Teksti-TV-taidefestivaalin  (International Teletext ArtFestival, ITAF) avajaiset torstaina 8.3. klo 18–21 taidetila XL:ssä(Vuorikatu 22, 00100 Helsinki). Vapaa pääsy.Luvassa Teksti-TV-taidetta ja musiikkia. BMTD63 musiikkivastaavana + vierailevana tähtenä Yrjänä Sauros.Teksti-TV:n 30-vuotissynttäreiden innoittamana FixC-osuuskunta(www.fixc.fi) on toteuttanut yhteistyössa YLE:n kanssa kansainvälisenTeksti-TV-taidefestivaalin. Osallistuvat taiteilijat: Rich Oglesby, Ashley Anderson, Erkka Nissinen, Guillermo Blanco, Raquel Meyers, Tuomo Kangasmaa, Frederic Cambus, Dave Needham, Juha van Ingen, Janne Suni, Frederico Malaca, Nathaniel Mellors, Max Capacity, Gabriel de la Cruz, Jarkko Räsänen, Dan Farrimond, Seppo Renvall, BYM ja Kari Yli-Annala.Teokset ovat nähtävillä 8.3.–8.4. 2012 YLE:n Teksti-TV-sivuilla 525-545.Lisätietoa festivaalista ja taiteilijoista: itaf (at) fixc.fiTarkempi ohjelma festivaalin verkkosivuilta: www.fixc.fi/itaf— in English —TELETEXT evening at XL Art Space / Indian SummerThe opening event of the International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF)takes place on Thursday, March 8, at 6–9 pm at XL Art Space (Vuorikatu22, 00100 Helsinki). Free entrance.Programme: Teletext art and music. BMTD63 providing the music + guest star Yrjänä Sauros.Inspired by the 30st anniversary of Teletext in Finland FixCcooperative (www.fixc.fi) has produced an International Teletext ArtFestival in collaboration with YLE. Participating artists: Rich Oglesby, Ashley Anderson, Erkka Nissinen, Guillermo Blanco, Raquel Meyers, Tuomo Kangasmaa, Frederic Cambus, Dave Needham, Juha van Ingen, Janne Suni, Frederico Malaca, Nathaniel Mellors, Max Capacity, Gabriel de la Cruz, Jarkko Räsänen, Dan Farrimond, Seppo Renvall, BYM and Kari Yli-Annala.The artworks are shown on the YLE Teletext pages 525-545 (in Finland) from March 8 until April 8 2012.More info about the festival and artists: itaf (at) fixc.fiThe final programme is available on the festival website: www.fixc.fi/itaf :: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

International Teletext Art Festival - opening event / avajaistapahtuma — Thursday 8.3., 18–21.

TELETEXT -ilta, taidetila XL / Indian Summer

Kansainvälisen Teksti-TV-taidefestivaalin  (International Teletext Art
Festival, ITAF) avajaiset torstaina 8.3. klo 18–21 taidetila XL:ssä
(Vuorikatu 22, 00100 Helsinki). Vapaa pääsy.

Luvassa Teksti-TV-taidetta ja musiikkia. BMTD63 musiikkivastaavana + vierailevana tähtenä Yrjänä Sauros.

Teksti-TV:n 30-vuotissynttäreiden innoittamana FixC-osuuskunta
(www.fixc.fi) on toteuttanut yhteistyössa YLE:n kanssa kansainvälisen
Teksti-TV-taidefestivaalin.

Osallistuvat taiteilijat: Rich Oglesby, Ashley Anderson, Erkka Nissinen, Guillermo Blanco, Raquel Meyers, Tuomo Kangasmaa, Frederic Cambus, Dave Needham, Juha van Ingen, Janne Suni, Frederico Malaca, Nathaniel Mellors, Max Capacity, Gabriel de la Cruz, Jarkko Räsänen, Dan Farrimond, Seppo Renvall, BYM ja Kari Yli-Annala.

Teokset ovat nähtävillä 8.3.–8.4. 2012 YLE:n Teksti-TV-sivuilla 525-545.

Lisätietoa festivaalista ja taiteilijoista: itaf (at) fixc.fi
Tarkempi ohjelma festivaalin verkkosivuilta: www.fixc.fi/itaf


— in English —

TELETEXT evening at XL Art Space / Indian Summer

The opening event of the International Teletext Art Festival (ITAF)
takes place on Thursday, March 8, at 6–9 pm at XL Art Space (Vuorikatu
22, 00100 Helsinki). Free entrance.

Programme: Teletext art and music. BMTD63 providing the music + guest star Yrjänä Sauros.

Inspired by the 30st anniversary of Teletext in Finland FixC
cooperative (www.fixc.fi) has produced an International Teletext Art
Festival in collaboration with YLE.

Participating artists: Rich Oglesby, Ashley Anderson, Erkka Nissinen, Guillermo Blanco, Raquel Meyers, Tuomo Kangasmaa, Frederic Cambus, Dave Needham, Juha van Ingen, Janne Suni, Frederico Malaca, Nathaniel Mellors, Max Capacity, Gabriel de la Cruz, Jarkko Räsänen, Dan Farrimond, Seppo Renvall, BYM and Kari Yli-Annala.

The artworks are shown on the YLE Teletext pages 525-545 (in Finland) from March 8 until April 8 2012.

More info about the festival and artists: itaf (at) fixc.fi
The final programme is available on the festival website: www.fixc.fi/itaf

:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::


Feb 22nd
∞08:33 pm, xlartspace
[switch] [heini aho] [bea fremderman] [sherwin rivera tibayan] [art] [exhibition] [xl art space]
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SWITCH — Heini Aho / Bea Fremderman / Sherwin Rivera Tibayan — 3.3.–31.3.2012 Avoinna ma–pe klo 12–20, la klo 12–18. / Open Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18. * Avajaiset/Opening pe/Fri 2.3.2012, 18–21, w/ DJ Suvi Sommar * Tervetuloa! Välkommen! Welcome! : : SWITCHHeini Aho / Bea Fremderman / Sherwin Rivera Tibayan Kulutamme pakonomaisesti kuvia. Visuaalisen liioittelun aikakaudella saattaa olla mielekästä ottaa askel taaksepäin ja vetäytyä pois luupista. Vetäytyminen ei tarkoita kuvallisuuden kieltämistä, vaan etäisyyden ottamista kuviin. Vetäytyminen voi johtaa pohdintoihin jatkuvan katsomisen mielekkyydestä ylipäänsä. Se ei tarkoita pysähtymistä, pikemmin jatkuvaa liikettä kuvaa kohti ja siitä poispäin – läsnäoloa, ei hermostunutta vilkuilua. Kyse ei ole niinkään teoksen tai kuvan sisällön tyhjentämisestä sanoiksi, vaan aistien elvyttämisestä niitä kohdatessa.On tarpeen hidastaa ja oppia suunnistamaan ilman osoitetta ja karttaa, sillä ehkä eräänä päivänä kaikki valot ja näytöt sammutetaan ja tulee täysin pimeää. Kuinka hyvin näemme pilkkopimeässä – vai näemmekö laisinkaan? Switch on ryhmänäyttely, jossa käsitellään katsomiskokemusta, etäisyyksiä ja ajallisuutta. Näyttelyn keskiössä ovat ajatukset karsitusta ilmaisusta ja kuvien kiertämisestä. Switch esittelee töitä kolmelta taiteilijalta: Heini Aholta, Bea Fremdermanilta ja Sherwin Rivera Tibayanilta. Heini Aho (s. 1979, Turku) viimeistelee parhaillaan maisteriopintoja Kuvataideakatemiassa.  Aho on työskennellyt viime aikoina installaatioiden, videoiden sekä performanssien parissa. Usein tilalliset teokset avautuvat vain tietystä kuvakulmasta eheiksi; kolmiulotteisuus litistyy kuvaksi ja avaa teoksen hämärässä pysytelleen juonen. Hän on ottanut osaa lukuisiin näyttelyihin niin Suomessa kuin ulkomaillakin. Loppuvuodesta 2009 hän osallistui residenssityöskentelynsä ohella taiteilija- ja tutkijavetoiseen The Arctic Circle -purjehdukseen, jossa työryhmä työskenteli kolme viikkoa Huippuvuorten ympäri purjehtien.Bea Fremderman (s. 1988, Kishinov, Moldova) viimeistelee parhaillaan opintojaan School of the Art Institutessa, Chicagossa, jossa hän myös koordinoi voittoa tavoittelemattoman Kunsthalle Newn toimintaa. Fremdermanin viimeaikaisia tutkimuskohteita ovat lähiöhelvetti, synteettinen todellisuus ja valheelliset käsitykset vapaudesta. Fremdermanin töitä on ollut esillä esimerkiksi seuraavissa näyttelyissä: Internet Superheroes (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art), Shine A Light (Portland Art Museum), Younger Than Jesus (New Museum in New York) ja Take Me In Your Arms And Fuck Me (Preteen Gallery in Mexico). Sherwin Rivera Tibayan (s. 1982, Subic Bay, Filippiinit) on Oklahoman Normanissa asuva ja työskentelevä valokuvataiteen maisteriopiskelija. Hän on keskittynyt viimeaikaisessa työskentelyssään digitaaliseen kulttuuriin sekä sen vaikutuksiin tavassamme käsittää kuvien historiaa – tai historioita. Näyttelyn on kuratoinut Ilari Laamanen. Se on osa hänen opinnäytetyötään Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulun Curating, Managing and Mediating Art -maisterikoulutusohjelmaan. Lisätietoja: ilari.laamanen (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.comSWITCH Heini Aho / Bea Fremderman / Sherwin Rivera TibayanWe are obsessed with consuming images. During an era of visual excess it might be wise to step back, to withdraw oneself from the loop. Withdrawal does not mean denial of images but taking distance to them. The gesture could serve as a starting point for considering what is the point in constant watching after all. Withdrawal does not mean merely stopping but moreover perpetual movement towards the image and away from it – presence, not nervous glancing.  One should not try to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art or image but instead try to revive the senses when encountering them.It is necessary to slow down and learn how to orientate without an address and a map. Because perhaps one of these days all the lights will be switched off and it will get completely dark. How well can we see in the midst of darkness – or can we see at all? Switch is a group exhibition dealing with distance, temporality and spectating. At the core of the exhibition are the ideas of reduced expression and the rotation of images. It presents works by three artists: Heini Aho, Bea Fremderman and Sherwin Rivera Tibayan. Heini Aho (b. 1979, Turku, Finland) is currently finishing her Master’s studies at the Finnish Academy of Arts in Helsinki. Lately her practice has involved installation, video and performance. Often her spatial constructions open fully to the viewer only when approached from certain angle; the three-dimensional flattens to an image and reveals the narrative hiding underneath. She has participated in various exhibitions in Finland and abroad. In 2009, alongside her residency, Aho took part in a project in which a group of artists and researchers sailed and worked in the Arctic Circle, around Svalbard, for three weeks. Bea Fremderman (b. 1988, Kishinov, Moldova) is currently finishing her studies at School of the Art Institute in Chicago where she lives, produces and is the sole director of Kunsthalle New, a nonprofit gallery space located in Pilsen. Her current research interests are the suburban nightmare, synthetic reality and false notions of freedom. Her exhibition highlights include Internet Superheroes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Shine A Light at the Portland Art Museum, Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum in New York and Take Me In Your Arms and Fuck Me at Preteen Gallery in Mexico. Sherwin Rivera Tibayan (b. 1982, Subic Bay, Philippines) is a graduate student in photography living in Norman, Oklahoma. His recent projects are influenced by digital culture and its effect on our relationship to the history – and histories – of images. Switch is curated by Ilari Laamanen. The exhibition is part of his Master’s thesis for Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture’s MA program in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art.  For more information: ilari.laamanen (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

SWITCH — Heini Aho / Bea Fremderman / Sherwin Rivera Tibayan — 3.3.–31.3.2012

Avoinna ma–pe klo 12–20, la klo 12–18. / Open Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18.

* Avajaiset/Opening pe/Fri 2.3.2012, 18–21, w/ DJ Suvi Sommar *

Tervetuloa! Välkommen! Welcome!
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SWITCH
Heini Aho / Bea Fremderman / Sherwin Rivera Tibayan

Kulutamme pakonomaisesti kuvia. Visuaalisen liioittelun aikakaudella saattaa olla mielekästä ottaa askel taaksepäin ja vetäytyä pois luupista. Vetäytyminen ei tarkoita kuvallisuuden kieltämistä, vaan etäisyyden ottamista kuviin. Vetäytyminen voi johtaa pohdintoihin jatkuvan katsomisen mielekkyydestä ylipäänsä. Se ei tarkoita pysähtymistä, pikemmin jatkuvaa liikettä kuvaa kohti ja siitä poispäin – läsnäoloa, ei hermostunutta vilkuilua. Kyse ei ole niinkään teoksen tai kuvan sisällön tyhjentämisestä sanoiksi, vaan aistien elvyttämisestä niitä kohdatessa.

On tarpeen hidastaa ja oppia suunnistamaan ilman osoitetta ja karttaa, sillä ehkä eräänä päivänä kaikki valot ja näytöt sammutetaan ja tulee täysin pimeää. Kuinka hyvin näemme pilkkopimeässä – vai näemmekö laisinkaan?

Switch on ryhmänäyttely, jossa käsitellään katsomiskokemusta, etäisyyksiä ja ajallisuutta. Näyttelyn keskiössä ovat ajatukset karsitusta ilmaisusta ja kuvien kiertämisestä. Switch esittelee töitä kolmelta taiteilijalta: Heini Aholta, Bea Fremdermanilta ja Sherwin Rivera Tibayanilta.

Heini Aho (s. 1979, Turku) viimeistelee parhaillaan maisteriopintoja Kuvataideakatemiassa.  Aho on työskennellyt viime aikoina installaatioiden, videoiden sekä performanssien parissa. Usein tilalliset teokset avautuvat vain tietystä kuvakulmasta eheiksi; kolmiulotteisuus litistyy kuvaksi ja avaa teoksen hämärässä pysytelleen juonen. Hän on ottanut osaa lukuisiin näyttelyihin niin Suomessa kuin ulkomaillakin. Loppuvuodesta 2009 hän osallistui residenssityöskentelynsä ohella taiteilija- ja tutkijavetoiseen The Arctic Circle -purjehdukseen, jossa työryhmä työskenteli kolme viikkoa Huippuvuorten ympäri purjehtien.

Bea Fremderman (s. 1988, Kishinov, Moldova) viimeistelee parhaillaan opintojaan School of the Art Institutessa, Chicagossa, jossa hän myös koordinoi voittoa tavoittelemattoman Kunsthalle Newn toimintaa. Fremdermanin viimeaikaisia tutkimuskohteita ovat lähiöhelvetti, synteettinen todellisuus ja valheelliset käsitykset vapaudesta. Fremdermanin töitä on ollut esillä esimerkiksi seuraavissa näyttelyissä: Internet Superheroes (Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art), Shine A Light (Portland Art Museum), Younger Than Jesus (New Museum in New York) ja Take Me In Your Arms And Fuck Me (Preteen Gallery in Mexico).

Sherwin Rivera Tibayan (s. 1982, Subic Bay, Filippiinit) on Oklahoman Normanissa asuva ja työskentelevä valokuvataiteen maisteriopiskelija. Hän on keskittynyt viimeaikaisessa työskentelyssään digitaaliseen kulttuuriin sekä sen vaikutuksiin tavassamme käsittää kuvien historiaa – tai historioita.

Näyttelyn on kuratoinut Ilari Laamanen. Se on osa hänen opinnäytetyötään Aalto-yliopiston taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulun Curating, Managing and Mediating Art -maisterikoulutusohjelmaan.

Lisätietoja: ilari.laamanen (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com


SWITCH
Heini Aho / Bea Fremderman / Sherwin Rivera Tibayan

We are obsessed with consuming images. During an era of visual excess it might be wise to step back, to withdraw oneself from the loop. Withdrawal does not mean denial of images but taking distance to them. The gesture could serve as a starting point for considering what is the point in constant watching after all. Withdrawal does not mean merely stopping but moreover perpetual movement towards the image and away from it – presence, not nervous glancing.  One should not try to find the maximum amount of content in a work of art or image but instead try to revive the senses when encountering them.

It is necessary to slow down and learn how to orientate without an address and a map. Because perhaps one of these days all the lights will be switched off and it will get completely dark. How well can we see in the midst of darkness – or can we see at all? Switch is a group exhibition dealing with distance, temporality and spectating. At the core of the exhibition are the ideas of reduced expression and the rotation of images. It presents works by three artists: Heini Aho, Bea Fremderman and Sherwin Rivera Tibayan.

Heini Aho (b. 1979, Turku, Finland) is currently finishing her Master’s studies at the Finnish Academy of Arts in Helsinki. Lately her practice has involved installation, video and performance. Often her spatial constructions open fully to the viewer only when approached from certain angle; the three-dimensional flattens to an image and reveals the narrative hiding underneath. She has participated in various exhibitions in Finland and abroad. In 2009, alongside her residency, Aho took part in a project in which a group of artists and researchers sailed and worked in the Arctic Circle, around Svalbard, for three weeks.

Bea Fremderman (b. 1988, Kishinov, Moldova) is currently finishing her studies at School of the Art Institute in Chicago where she lives, produces and is the sole director of Kunsthalle New, a nonprofit gallery space located in Pilsen. Her current research interests are the suburban nightmare, synthetic reality and false notions of freedom. Her exhibition highlights include Internet Superheroes at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Shine A Light at the Portland Art Museum, Younger Than Jesus at the New Museum in New York and Take Me In Your Arms and Fuck Me at Preteen Gallery in Mexico.

Sherwin Rivera Tibayan (b. 1982, Subic Bay, Philippines) is a graduate student in photography living in Norman, Oklahoma. His recent projects are influenced by digital culture and its effect on our relationship to the history – and histories – of images.

Switch is curated by Ilari Laamanen. The exhibition is part of his Master’s thesis for Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture’s MA program in Curating, Managing and Mediating Art. 

For more information: ilari.laamanen (at) gmail.com / xl.artspace (at) gmail.com

:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

Feb 16th
∞01:11 am, xlartspace
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[podcast] [discussion] [jane hughes] [imagining other worlds] [art] [berlin] [helsinki] [xl art space]
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XL podcast - Discussion with Jane Hughes on her exhibition, Imagining Other Worlds

[In English. Recorded on February 15, 2012.]

The first XL podcast is here! It’s a 19-minute discussion between Toni Ledentsa (of XL) and Jane Hughes regarding her exhibition, Imagining Other Worlds, which is currently (until 25.2.) being exhibited at XL Art Space. We also talk a bit about the differences between the art scenes of Berlin and Helsinki.

Feel free to comment via e-mail or our Facebook page. See the ‘contact’ page for details.


Feb 15th
∞04:20 pm, xlartspace
[olimpia splendid] [live] [music] [underground] [punk] [xl art space]
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Olimpia Splendid (live performance), pe/Fri 24.2.2012, 18–21 (showtime 19:30). Olimpia Splendid is blooming and rottening flower of the scorpio / mud cake rising. Heta (guitar, vocals), Katri (bass, vocals) and Jonna (guitar, vocals) all have their roots deep in the Finnish underground/punk scene. Beats, shrieks and clumsy hypnosis. Olimpia Splendid will play inside Jane Hughes’ installation, Imagining Other Worlds, which is being exhibited at XL until Saturday 25.2.2012. Sounds like:http://soundcloud.com/olimpia-splendidLive clip:www.youtube.com/watch?v=IISZpZAykG4 Before and after the gig, music played by DJ Teenage Caveman. Vapaa pääsy / Free entrance. :: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

Olimpia Splendid (live performance), pe/Fri 24.2.2012, 18–21 (showtime 19:30).

Olimpia Splendid is blooming and rottening flower of the scorpio / mud cake rising. Heta (guitar, vocals), Katri (bass, vocals) and Jonna (guitar, vocals) all have their roots deep in the Finnish underground/punk scene. Beats, shrieks and clumsy hypnosis.

Olimpia Splendid will play inside Jane Hughes’ installation, Imagining Other Worlds, which is being exhibited at XL until Saturday 25.2.2012.

Sounds like:
http://soundcloud.com/olimpia-splendid

Live clip:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IISZpZAykG4

Before and after the gig, music played by DJ Teenage Caveman.

Vapaa pääsy / Free entrance.

:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::


Feb 05th
∞04:55 pm, xlartspace
[artist talks] [luciana ohira] [sergio bonilha] [transimmanence] [2012] [jane hughes] [imagining other worlds] [space is the place] [zine] [ptarmigan] [xl art space]
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Zine launch & Artist talks: Luciana Ohira & Sergio Bonilha + Jane Hughes Keskiviikkona 8.2. klo 18:30–20:00. / On Wednesday 8.2. at 18:30–20:00. - Luciana Ohira and Sergio Bonilha (Brazil) - ‘Transimmanence’ is an art project by Luciana Ohira & Sergio Bonilha. In their words “It is a new project we are working on as a way of think about this largely announced “shift on Earth” we are (maybe) about to experience in/from 2012. Three artworks named with titles suggesting transcendental issues but offering three mainly immanent experiences is what we propose in a Spinozian way of mixing feeling and thinking. Does it sound too abstract? Don’t worry! We are going to bring with us one of the artworks, ‘ascesis’, plus pictures from its construction process.” Born and getting crazy in São Paulo, Brazil, Luciana Ohira (1983) and Sergio Bonilha (1976) have graduated and obtained master degrees side by side at the University of São Paulo. Working together since 2005 they have shown their projects in Brazil and abroad – trying to understand life a little bit better.http://issuu.com/ohira.bonilha/docs/ohira_bonilha_portfolio ** ** - Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds - Jane Hughes will talk about her exhibition, Imagining Other Worlds, which is currently at XL Art Space (until 25.2.2012). “The language and narrative of peripheries, forgotten and forbidden areas have been a recurring motif in my work. Much of my source material in my installations originates in these desolate landscapes, banal roadside views, crumbing structures, hidden remnants and peculiar locations. I am in constant pursuit of the unexpected, the sinister, the eerie, the surprising, the beautiful and the perpetual deception of our lived environment.” The exhibition Imagining Other Worlds invites the viewer into a dark enchanted world of obstacles, shaky ground, grainy images, blurry lines, rusty textures, elusive sounds and all the poetics of dirt and grime. For more info visit: www.janehughes.ie. ** Entwined into these artist talks will also be the launch of the Space is the Place zine, developed in collaboration with Ptarmigan, XL Art Space and Kuvataideakatemia (the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts). ** :: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

Zine launch & Artist talks: Luciana Ohira & Sergio Bonilha + Jane Hughes

Keskiviikkona 8.2. klo 18:30–20:00. / On Wednesday 8.2. at 18:30–20:00.


- Luciana Ohira and Sergio Bonilha (Brazil) -

‘Transimmanence’ is an art project by Luciana Ohira & Sergio Bonilha. In their words “It is a new project we are working on as a way of think about this largely announced “shift on Earth” we are (maybe) about to experience in/from 2012. Three artworks named with titles suggesting transcendental issues but offering three mainly immanent experiences is what we propose in a Spinozian way of mixing feeling and thinking. Does it sound too abstract? Don’t worry! We are going to bring with us one of the artworks, ‘ascesis’, plus pictures from its construction process.”


Born and getting crazy in São Paulo, Brazil, Luciana Ohira (1983) and Sergio Bonilha (1976) have graduated and obtained master degrees side by side at the University of São Paulo. Working together since 2005 they have shown their projects in Brazil and abroad – trying to understand life a little bit better.

http://issuu.com/ohira.bonilha/docs/ohira_bonilha_portfolio

** **

- Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds -

Jane Hughes will talk about her exhibition, Imagining Other Worlds, which is currently at XL Art Space (until 25.2.2012).


“The language and narrative of peripheries, forgotten and forbidden areas have been a recurring motif in my work. Much of my source material in my installations originates in these desolate landscapes, banal roadside views, crumbing structures, hidden remnants and peculiar locations. I am in constant pursuit of the unexpected, the sinister, the eerie, the surprising, the beautiful and the perpetual deception of our lived environment.”

The exhibition Imagining Other Worlds invites the viewer into a dark enchanted world of obstacles, shaky ground, grainy images, blurry lines, rusty textures, elusive sounds and all the poetics of dirt and grime.

For more info visit: www.janehughes.ie.


** Entwined into these artist talks will also be the launch of the Space is the Place zine, developed in collaboration with Ptarmigan, XL Art Space and Kuvataideakatemia (the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts). **


:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::


Jan 28th
∞08:00 pm, xlartspace
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[jane hughes] [imagining other worlds] [art] [exhibition] [xl art space]
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Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds — 4.2–25.2.2012 Avoinna ma–pe klo 12–20, la klo 12–18. / Open Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18. Avajaiset/Opening pe/Fri 3.2., 18–21 w/ DJ Jonna (sähkötyyny / bassoradio) Tervetuloa! / Välkommen! / Welcome!Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds ‘The language and narrative of peripheries, forgotten and forbidden areas have been a recurring motif in my work. Much of my source material in my installations originates in these desolate landscapes, banal roadside views, crumbing structures, hidden remnants and peculiar locations. I am in constant pursuit of the unexpected, the sinister, the eerie, the surprising, the beautiful and the perpetual deception of our lived environment.’ The exhibition Imagining Other Worlds invites the viewer into a dark enchanted world of obstacles, shaky ground, grainy images, blurry lines, rusty textures, elusive sounds and all the poetics of dirt and grime. Jane Hughes is an Irish born artist, who works mainly with video and installation. She is currently finishing her MA in Environmental Art at Aalto University. She attained her BA in fine art from National College of Art & Design in Dublin in 2006. Since then she has been based in Berlin and involved in various artist-run projects and collaborations. Since 2008 she has been a member of WerkStadt e.V, where she regularly organizes events and curates shows. Her work is currently on show in Berlin as a part of the group show New Horizons and the Contemporary Romantic in Kunstraum T27 until the 15th of February. A catalogue also accompanies the show. Hughes has exhibited widely internationally including Iceland, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Russia and the Netherlands in various project spaces, festivals, local and state galleries. For more info visit: www.janehughes.ie. This exhibition has kindly been supported by Culture Ireland. :: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::

Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds — 4.2–25.2.2012

Avoinna ma–pe klo 12–20, la klo 12–18. / Open Mon–Fri 12–20, Sat 12–18.

Avajaiset/Opening pe/Fri 3.2., 18–21
w/ DJ Jonna (sähkötyyny / bassoradio)
Tervetuloa! / Välkommen! / Welcome!


Jane Hughes: Imagining Other Worlds

‘The language and narrative of peripheries, forgotten and forbidden areas have been a recurring motif in my work. Much of my source material in my installations originates in these desolate landscapes, banal roadside views, crumbing structures, hidden remnants and peculiar locations. I am in constant pursuit of the unexpected, the sinister, the eerie, the surprising, the beautiful and the perpetual deception of our lived environment.’

The exhibition Imagining Other Worlds invites the viewer into a dark enchanted world of obstacles, shaky ground, grainy images, blurry lines, rusty textures, elusive sounds and all the poetics of dirt and grime.

Jane Hughes is an Irish born artist, who works mainly with video and installation. She is currently finishing her MA in Environmental Art at Aalto University. She attained her BA in fine art from National College of Art & Design in Dublin in 2006. Since then she has been based in Berlin and involved in various artist-run projects and collaborations. Since 2008 she has been a member of WerkStadt e.V, where she regularly organizes events and curates shows. Her work is currently on show in Berlin as a part of the group show New Horizons and the Contemporary Romantic in Kunstraum T27 until the 15th of February. A catalogue also accompanies the show. Hughes has exhibited widely internationally including Iceland, Germany, Finland, Ireland, Russia and the Netherlands in various project spaces, festivals, local and state galleries.

For more info visit: www.janehughes.ie.

This exhibition has kindly been supported by Culture Ireland.

:: XL Art Space, Vuorikatu 22, Helsinki ::


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