Horror Vacui
15 May - 09 Aug 2009
HORROR VACUI
5. floor, Kontti, Studio K
15.5.-9.8.2009
In their joint exhibition, Horror vacui, three prominent Finnish artists, Markus Copper, Jari Haanperä and Kimmo Schroderus, focus on spatial issues. They all have an aversion of empty space, and fill it with powerful ideas, sculptural volumes, motorised objects, moving images, lights and sounds.
Works in the Horror vacui exhibition redefine the concepts of space and scale. The empty space is filled totally, verging on claustrophobia, and the works appropriate it aggressively yet with insight. The artists featured in the exhibition are very different: two are sculptors, one is a media artist. The exhibition has two opposite poles: heavy, physical, stationary masses and moving lights and sounds. Traditional craftmanship and technology blend in unprecedented ways, pushing the borders of both sculpture and media art.
Presented in Kiasma's fifth-floor gallery, the exhibition also flows onto the fourth and second floors, as well as outside the building where Bogey, a giant sculpture by Kimmo Schroderus, will be set up in front of the entrance. The exhibition is curated by chief curator Arja Miller and curator Satu Metsola.
One of the works in the Horror vacui exhibition is Markus Copper's Estonia, which was donated to Kiasma collections by Friends of Kiasma association.
5. floor, Kontti, Studio K
15.5.-9.8.2009
In their joint exhibition, Horror vacui, three prominent Finnish artists, Markus Copper, Jari Haanperä and Kimmo Schroderus, focus on spatial issues. They all have an aversion of empty space, and fill it with powerful ideas, sculptural volumes, motorised objects, moving images, lights and sounds.
Works in the Horror vacui exhibition redefine the concepts of space and scale. The empty space is filled totally, verging on claustrophobia, and the works appropriate it aggressively yet with insight. The artists featured in the exhibition are very different: two are sculptors, one is a media artist. The exhibition has two opposite poles: heavy, physical, stationary masses and moving lights and sounds. Traditional craftmanship and technology blend in unprecedented ways, pushing the borders of both sculpture and media art.
Presented in Kiasma's fifth-floor gallery, the exhibition also flows onto the fourth and second floors, as well as outside the building where Bogey, a giant sculpture by Kimmo Schroderus, will be set up in front of the entrance. The exhibition is curated by chief curator Arja Miller and curator Satu Metsola.
One of the works in the Horror vacui exhibition is Markus Copper's Estonia, which was donated to Kiasma collections by Friends of Kiasma association.