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Kalle Lampela: Handwerke

27.8.–19.9.2010
Avajaiset torstaina 26.8.2010 klo 18–20



Handwerke-näyttely on kunnianosoitus taiteilijan käsityölle, työkaluja liikuttavalle kädelle. Handwerke
tarkoittaa ”käsitöitä” eli käsin toteutettuja teoksia.
Näyttelyn teokset on toteutettu neulalla, langalla, manuaalisella kirjoituskoneella ja kuulakärkikynällä. Teokset visualisoivat taiteellista työtä yksittäisten valmiiden teosten kautta, kuten mikä tahansa objektimuotoinen taide. Teosten tekniikat ja materiaalit on kuitenkin valittu niin, että ne korostavat taiteellisen työn käsityömäisyyttä.
Teemoiltaan teokseni liikkuvat representaation ongelmassa eli kuvallisuuden ja sanallisuuden rajapinnalla (konekirjoitus- ja tekstiteokset) sekä sellaisissa rakennetun ympäristön kohteissa, joihin liittyy vastakkaisten intressien törmäämisiä ja poliittisia jännitteitä (lankateokset).
Teokset osoittavat materiaaliensa puolesta taiteilijan työn yhteiskunnallisen luonteen. Materiaalit ja tekniikat edustavat poeettista, aiheet ja teema diskursiivisuutta. Poeettinen ja diskursiivinen ovat yhtä lailla taiteen poliittisia kuin esteettisiä ulottuvuuksia.
Näyttelyssä on esillä – eli katsottavissa ja/tai luettavissa – myös teksti taiteen, tiedon ja tutkimuksen suhteista ja taiteilijalähtöisen tutkimuksen mahdollisuudesta. Näyttely on taiteen tohtorin tutkinnon toinen näyttely kolmesta.

TITANIK
3 rooms, with combined surface area of 101,5 m2, height 2,6 m

SUMU
1 room, surface area 20 m2, height 2,6 m

Koko kuva – Arte 50 vuotta
29.1.–2.5.2010 >>>

Wäinö Aaltosen museon näyttelyvuosi käynnistyy vireän keski-ikäisen taiteilijaseura Arten 50-vuotisjuhlilla ja näyttelyllä Koko kuva. Näyttely tarkastelee Arten historiaa ja toimintaa viiden vuosikymmenen ajalta. Mukana on liki 200 teosta noin 80 artelaiselta taiteilijalta.

Arte perustettiin vuonna 1960 tilanteessa, jossa turkulaiset kuvataiteilijat olivat turhautuneet Turun Taiteilijaseuran toimintaan. Arten perustajajäsenet kokivat, ettei monia eri taiteenaloja edustanut Turun Taiteilijaseura kyennyt ajamaan kuvataiteen asiaa.

Vuonna 1984 Arte perusti ensimmäisen oman galleriansa Joe’sin Läntiselle Rantakadulle.Galleria toimi puolitoista vuotta. Vuodesta 1988 eteenpäin Arten galleriana on toiminut Galleria Titanik Itäisellä Rantakadulla.

Arte toteutti monia poikkitaiteellisia hankkeita ja taidehankkeet laajenivat ulos gallerioista. Arten 2000-luvun toimintaa ovat leimanneet monet yhteis- ja kaupunkitaideprojektit kuten Polis ja Virasto (2001, 2003). Juhlanäyttelyssä 2000-lukua käsittelevään osaan toteutettu Paketti-installaatio jatkaa näitä Arte ry:n yhdessä tekemisen perinteitä.

Koko kuva -näyttelyn teosvalinnasta vastaavat Arten nimeämät 7 taiteilijakuraattoria Suvi Aarnio, Minna-Maija Lappalainen, Reino Koivula, Harro Koskinen, Kimmo Ojaniemi, Visa Suonpää ja Sanna Syvänen yhteistyössä museon kanssa. Näyttelyn voi nähdä tarkastelevan myös kuratoinnin käsitettä, koska jokainen kuraattoreista on lähestynyt omalla ja toisista hieman poikkeavalla tavalla omaa vuosikymmentään. Anneli Nygren on lisäksi toteuttanut useita videokoosteita Arten historiaan liittyen.

Näyttelyyn liittyy monipuolisesti oheisohjelmaa kuten keskustelutilaisuuksia, performansseja, koko perheen työpajoja ja taiteilijatapaamisia.

www.wam.fi

Arte’s 50th anniversary exhibition
29.1.-2.5.2010

The Wäinö Aaltonen Museum’s exhibition year starts by celebrating the 50th anniversary of the
active middle-aged art association, Arte, with the exhibition The Big Picture. The exhibition reviews Arte’s history and activities over five decades. There are almost 200 works on display by some 80 Arte members over five decades.

The Big Picture – Arte’s 50th anniversary exhibition 29.1.–2.5.2010

Arte was founded in 1960, in a situation where Turku artists were frustrated with the activities of the local artists’ association, Turun taiteilijaseura. Arte’s founder members felt that the association, which represented many different fields of art, was unable to give sufficient support to the visual arts.

In 1984 Arte founded their first own gallery, Joe’s on Läntinen Rantakatu street. The gallery operated for one and a half years. From 1988 on, Galleria Titanik on Itäinen Rantakatu served as Arte’s gallery.

Arte’s activities in the 2000s have been characterised by many joint and City art projects,
such as Polis and Virasto (2001, 2003). The Paketti (Package) installation, created for the part of the anniversary exhibition covering the first decade of the 21st century, continues Arte’s traditions of cooperation..

Responsible for the choice of works for The Big Picture exhibition are 7 artist-curators appointed by Arte – Suvi Aarnio, Minna-Maija Lappalainen, Reino Koivula, Harro Koskinen, Kimmo Ojaniemi, Visa Suonpää and Sanna Syvänen, cooperating with the Museum. The exhibition can also be seen as examining the concept of curatorship, as each of the curators has approached their own decade from an individual, slightly different angle. In addition, Anneli Nygren has produced ´several video compilations relating to Arte’s history.

In connection with the exhibition there will be a versatile programme of events, including
discussions, performances, workshops for the whole family and meetings with artists.

876 Shades of Darkness
Darkness holds power, intimacy and warmth.

876 Shades of Darkness consists of several smaller undertakings, which portray darkness as a positive Nordic resource. Darkness can also be enjoyed and it can bring one a sense of calm.

The central idea is that culture belongs to everyone and everywhere: culture shall be brought into the streets, the parks and away from the centre. The majority of the events will have no admission charge in order to ensure that anyone and everyone that is interested is able to participate.

The programme involves art, science, theatre, working together and retreating for quiet time on one's own. Each portion of the project emphasises the beauty, special qualities and positive power of darkness and silence. The overall project is divided into three themes: Experiencing darkness, Lighting up the dark and Shadow of darkness.

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Artists' Association Arte • Itäinen Rantakatu 8, 20700 Turku, Finland

Artists' Association Arte was founded in 1960. Originally formed as an exhibition group with vigorously expressed opinions, it has turned into an association of professional visual artists operating mostly in the city of Turku, Finland. The main purpose of the association is to promote visual arts in the city as well as to improve the professional, social and economical benefits of the artists living in Turku and the nearby areas. Arte actively takes part in the art discussions and brings up questions which are important for the artists. The social situation of the artists, studio situation in Turku, communal politics and art purchase of the institutions and museum as well as are important matters.

Artists’ Association Arte arranges interesting exhibitions and cultural events. Gallery Titanik,
which Arte has run since 1988, acts as an important centre for the association. In addition to that, the association runs the international media art residency Sumu. Arte organizes many projects, workshops and events, not just in the gallery space but often out in the city as well.

At the moment Arte Association has about 90 members, all professional artists, mostly living in Turku but some as far away as in Vietnam and Australia. Arte consists of e.g. painters, printmakers, sculptors, performance artists, animators, video artists and photographers. Many of Arte’s members are well-known both nationally and internationally, but the association also provides good opportunities for young promising artists to develop their careers. Arte is an active artists’ association, and although it’s already middle aged, its mind is still fresh and young!

ARTISTS’ RESIDENCY SUMU >>

Call for Applications >>>

September 30th 2010 (postmark).
Session dates: the 2nd half of the year 2011

Arte association’s Sumu Artists' Residency offers new media artists, working in the intersection of new technologies and contemporary art from one to three months residencies.
The Arts Center is located in Southwest Finland coast in the city of Turku. Artists are provided with room and studio. Studio is adjoined to the gallery Titanik, run by the artist’s association Arte. The program can include an exhibition either in our gallery Titanik or on our website. Arte provides the artists with a free studio and accommodation. The artists must fund all their living expences including food and transportation. Arte can help the artists with the material costs up to 200 euros depending on the application.

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CURRENT >>>

Tine Melzer
at SUMU A.i.R.
26.08.2010 – 26.09.2010



www.tinemelzer.eu

During the work period at the SUMU Residency I aim to challenge an aspect of 'meaning' by making use of the exchange between the work and the given context. One focus point shall lie on the 'test' of importing a grammatical notion from one language-family to another by using the most common words of ordinary language. During the work period of 1 month I would like to expose this ideas to the cultural environment of Turku and to a dialogue with the native language. I will give background-information about my work practice in a public lecture and hope to share the work process in a final exhibition.

The works I recently develop are based on the awareness of ‘language games’ we are playing all the time: currently the awareness is focussed on SHIFTERS, tiny words we can't do without and which shift or change their meaning always, depending on context and speaker. TODAY, HERE, YOU, ME, NOW, THIS and THAT... Coming from a word-family in which these words always remain static entities within a sentence, this mechanism will be challenged by the Finnish language. The work will be a continuation of a series of sculptures based on the conventional language of trophies.

Additionally and hopefully in the continuation of the SHIFTERS, I hope to be able to find other ways to visualize the way how words relate to each other as units of potential meaning rather than narrative. I hope to show attempts to visualize relations between words as characterized and examined by contemporary comparative corpus linguistics.

The questions and the central content of the works is essential, and not predetermined by a certain medium. The new media approach happens behind the scenes by using search machines and the like, whilst the work shown often appears in a straightforward analogue form which often harvests from our shared forms of cultural habits and conventions.

Between September 16 (6pm) and September 26 the work will be shown in the SUMU project space at TITANIK Gallery.

26.8.- 26.9.2010
Tine Melzer, german artist based in Zürich, Switzerland and Amsterdam, Holland
Language Games in Finnish
www.tinemelzer.eu
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS ::: >>> :::

ARTE Association’s SUMU Artist-in-Residence program
We will invite 2 - 4 artists for 1 - 3 months residency periods from the Nordic and Baltic countries. This Nordic program is sponsored by Nordic Culture Point. Artists, who were born or live in the Nordic countries (except Finland), can send us their applications and project plans for 2nd half of 2011 by 30th September 2010.

The artists who are invited to Sumu A.i.R. program by the Nordic Culture Point’s support:

Sumu A.i.R. 27 May – 6 July 2010
Guro Gomo, Bergen, Norway ::: >>> :::

November 2010:
Birger Storaas, Bergen, Norway
www.birgerstoraas.com

October-December 2010:
Fideelia-Signe Roots, Tartu, Estonia
http://fideelia.future.ee/

Their group exhibition is at the Titanik Gallery from 19th November until 5th December 2010.

The artists who are invited to SUMU residence by the support of the Nordic Culture Point ::: >>> :::





Sedan 2006 har konstnärsföreningen ARTE erbjudit residenser i ny media residensen SUMU. SUMUs residens program är menat för internationella konstnärer inom ny media, som arbetar med ny teknologi/samtidskonst. Konstnärerna får till sitt förfogande en ateljé för 1-3 månader. Ateljén finns i samma lokal som föreningens galleri, Titanik, och boende ordnas i Åbo Akademis gästhus, inte långt ifrån residensen. Resor och andra levnadskostnader ingår inte i finansieringen för programmet. Residens konstnärerna har möjlighet att ordna en utställning i samband med residensen, endera i själva SUMU ateljén eller på ARTEs hemsida, och de får ordna flera workshops och allmänna screenings under residensperioden om de så önskar.