Death in All Fields
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In this body of work imagery of death, i.e. four-hundred-year-old etchings from the online collections of major museums, were reproduced and printed.
The reproductions made with computer-aided etching were either exact copies of the original source images or were cut and pasted as collages. By reproducing, modifying and presenting historical images in the context of today the work transforms narratives of the past.
In the exhibition the viewer can see the works as prints on a study room table or as framed artwork on the gallery wall.
Carceri contemporanei
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The starting point of the series is Finnish architect Alvar Aalto’s buildings: Säynätsalo Town Hall, Villa Mairea and Seinäjoki Library. The plans and elevations of these quintessential modernist buildings were digitally sampled, manipulated into new compositions and plotted as drypoint onto intaglio matrises. The resulting prints were collaged as chine-collé prints in which the past ideals of living are reflected to the glass and steel architecture of our times.
Unwrapped Valleys
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Unwrapped Valleys is a collaborative work by artists Tatu Tuominen, Ari Pelkonen, Laura Vainikka and Annu Vertanen created for the exhibition Graphica Creativa 2019 – Hereafter in Jyväskylä Art Museum. It is an installation inspired by the innovative print work of the Dutch 17th century artist Hercules Segers.
The project’s aim was to gain experiential knowledge of authorship by deconstructing Seger’s work in a collaborative printmaking process.
A Thin Layer of Street Dust
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A Thin Layer of Street Dust was an exhibition in Kalasataman Seripaja’s Paja Gallery that dealt with the industrial history of the shores of Vanhankaupunginlahti where the gallery is situated.
The source images of the work is a series of photos taken by photographer Harri Ahola in 1979. They depict a chimney sweeper sitting on the tall chimney of the nearby Kyläsaari waste incineration plant. The photo series is part of the Helsinki City Museum’s extensive online photo collection.
The two pictures selected for the exhibition are of the same object, but shot with tenths of a second in between them. With the aid of a programmed light sequence they form a two-frame moving image in the gallery space. One of the images is reflected on the wall from a 70s overhead projector. A spotlight picks out the second picture in the exhibition space which is a serigraphy printed with grit that has been collected from the Kyläsaarenkatu street near the chimney stub of the old waste incineration plant. The material still contains, in some form, particles of burned waste of the past.