Secrets from the depths of the collection – Gallery Elverket’s autumn starts with an exhibition showing new acquisitions from Pro Artibus Foundation’s own collection.

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\r\n\r\nAbstract, Pro Artibus Foundation’s summer exhibition in Helsinki and Ekenäs explores non-figurativeness in art from a number of different angles. The exhibition is at Sinne June 5–August 2, 2020 and at Gallery Elverket June 6–September 27, 2020.\r\n\r\nThe artists at Sinne are: Päivikki Alaräihä, Beryl Furman, Alvar Gullichsen, Jani Anders Purhonen and Päivi Sirén.\r\n\r\nThe artists at Elverket are: Päivikki Alaräihä, Stig Baumgartner, Christine Candolin, Carolus Enckell, Erika Erre, Susanne Gottberg, Lotta Ingman, Robin Lindqvist, Sampo Malin, Lars-Gunnar Nordström, Matti Rantanen, Sisko Riihiaho and Uhra-Beata Simberg-Ehrström.\r\n\r\nThe exhibition is curated by Pro Artibus resident curator Juha-Heikki Tihinen.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAbstract shows non-figurativeness in both contemporary art and modernism, and reveals how wide an area the non-figurative spans in visual art. The word “abstract” comes from the Latin verb abstrahere, which means to drag or pull away or, put slightly differently: to distinguish in our minds between a physical object and one of its characteristics, and to think about it separately. Abstraction has appeared in various forms in art in different ways in many eras, but the idea of modern abstract art dates back to the 1890s. It was then that the art student Maurice Denis (1870-1941) proposed his famous theory about painting being essentially a flat…

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Wood installation, speakers (photo: Ahmed Alalousi) Bird’s Nest consists of yellow triangle formations in wood that have been bolted together intuitively by the visual artist Jan-Erik Andersson, starting from the specific site where it is being exhibited, along with a sound installation. The sound elements are produced by the US sound artist Shawn Decker. The viewer can sit down inside the organic structure and take in the sound installation. Bird’s Nest is thus a site-specific, interactive sculptural work and has been shown, usually in public places adjoining cafés, since 2001. Andersson imitates the way birds create things, taking a triangle and attaching it to the next one. The form is not measured out, but is found in the artist’s brain. He uses this structure to investigate new methods for architecture by starting with shapes and modes of production that can be found in nature. At the same time, the project criticizes modernism’s method of using modules to create larger wholes. A module – the triangle – is used here, but the result is a structured chaos, which is also very stable. Decker’s soundscape is artificial, but uses the rhythms and sounds of nature. It synchronizes with the surroundings and can…

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