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Präppla performance in Vasa 2023 by Cocker, Coyotzi Borja, Daus, Grayson, Saumya, Séraphin and SOUNDS. Photo: Jaime Culebro. Präppla performance in Vasa 2023 by Cocker, Coyotzi Borja, Daus, Grayson, Saumya, Séraphin and SOUNDS. Photo: Jaime Culebro. Präppla performance in Vasa 2023 by Cocker, Coyotzi Borja, Daus, Grayson, Saumya, Séraphin and SOUNDS. Photo: Jaime Culebro.

\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…

Berghall (Olga Bergmann & Anna Hallin). Still images from New Wilderness.