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Official
opening: Thursday, September 14, 2000 at 7:30 p.m.
at the
Triangle Gallery of Visual Arts
with some of the participating artists in attendance
Paper
+ Finland = Art exhibition has been organized by the Finnish Foundation
for the Visual Arts in partnership with the Triangle Gallery of
Visual Arts.
Generous support for the exhibition has been provided by FRAME,
the Finnish Fund for Art Exchange, the Arts Council of the Helsinki
Region, Tervakoski Oy, and the Ministry of Education in Finland.
Additional support has been provided by the Embassy of Finland in
Ottawa and the Calgary Contemporary Arts Society in Calgary.
Soili
Arha,
Leenakaisu Hattunen,
Eija Isojarvi,
Eeva-Liisa Isomaa,
Kaarina Kaikkonen,
Paivikki Kallio,
Barbro Kulvik,
Harri Leppanen, Jukka Makela,
Miika Nyyssonen,
Ritva Puotila,
Irina Patt,
Anneli Sainio,
Kai Rentola,
Janna Syvanoja,
Senja Vellonen,
Karin Widnas,
Merja Winqvist
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Organised
for 2000 Artwalk,
Calgary's Festival of Visual Arts, Architecture & Design
Paper
+ Finland = Art presents works by eighteen internationally
acclaimed Finnish artists working with paper as their medium.
This exhibition celebrates the diversity of paper as an artistic
medium and its growing importance as an art form. The featured
works, all made in the 1990's range from the delicate intimacy
of paper jewelry to the forceful impact of imposing sculpture.
The
exhibition unites eighteen artists who have come from a variety
of backgrounds: the graphic arts, painting, sculpture, ceramics,
textile design, and interior design. Each artist has brought
his or her own sensibility to this medium, together with a
desire to explore the unique qualities and potential of paper.
Each one has played an important role in placing paper in
the vocabulary of Finnish artistic expression.
The
exhibition presents the works by: Soili Arha, Leenakaisu
Hattunen, Eija Isojarvi, Eeva-Liisa Isomaa, Kaarina Kaikkonen,
Paivikki Kallio, Barbro Kulvik, Harri Leppanen, Jukka Makela,
Miika Nyyssonen, Ritva Puotila, Irina Patt, Anneli Sainio,
Kai Rentola, Janna Syvanoja, Senja Vellonen, Karin Widnas,
and Merja Winqvist.
The
art works in this exhibition range from handmade paper pulp
containing cotton, flax, and other natural substances to industrially
produced and recycled papers. Usually considered fragile,
paper, in the creative hands of the artists of Paper + Finland
= Art, demonstrates visual and conceptual strength.
The Flood
Paivikki Kallio
Two Towers
Miika Nyyssonen
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Home Sweet Home
Janna Syvanoja
Snowcastles
Irina Patt
Necklace
Janna Syvanoja
And the Wind Blows Over You
Kaarina Kaikkonen
The Bible
Kaarina Kaikkonen
No Pain
Irina Patt
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Information
for art shown above:
- Home
Sweet Home, Janna Syvanoja, 1997, paper 2200 x 2200 mm
- Snowcastles,
Irina Patt, 1996, linen pulp, Japanese pulp and galvanized
metal, 14 x 15 x 6, 28 x 17 x 10, 32 x 17 x 10
- Necklace,
Janna Syvanoja, 2000, recycled paper, 180 x 45 mm
- And
the Wind Blows Over You, Kaarina Kaikkonen, 1994, paper
and fiberglass, 165 x 35.5, 149 x 35.5 x 35.5
- The
Bible, Kaarina Kaikkonon, 1997
- No
Pain, Irina Patt, n.d., installation of 48 paper lamps
- The
Flood, Paivikki Kallio, 1995, tissue paper, glue, mirror
and spotlights, 4 x6
- The
Towers, Miika Nyyssonen, 1996, cardboard sculpture, 44 x
44 x 22
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