Figuratively Speaking: Contemporary Naive Art from Finland
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Figuratively Speaking. Contemporary Naive Art from Finland esittelee kymmenen naivistitaiteilijaa ja suositun taidesuuntauksen uusia tuulia Suomessa. Naivismi on muutakin kuin humoristinen kuvaus maalaisidyllistä. Kirjan taiteilijat ovat laajentaneet perinteisen naivismin ideaa niin pop-taiteen, surrealismin kuin sci-finkin suuntaan. Suomalainen naivismi on kansainvälisesti kiinnostavaa, korkeatasoista taidetta, jota myös keräilijät ja taideinstituutio arvostavat.
Irene Wai Lwin Moe
Arthistorian, Ph.D Irene Wai Lwin Moe worked as director and curator of the Naïvists at Iittala Foundation 2011-2015. She is the author of Iittalan Naivismin Tarina, published in Finnish 2016. Wai Lwin Moe has long experience in lecturing and research as well as in multicultural exhibition projects. FT, taidehistorioitsija Irene Wai Lwin Moe työskenteli vuoden 2011 talvikaudesta kesään 2015 Suomen suurimman naivisminäyttelyn, Naivistit Iittalassa -tapahtuman toiminnanjohtajana ja kuraattorina. Hänen suomeksi keväällä 2016 julkaisemansa Iittalan Naivismin Tarina on laaja, 50 taiteilijan haastatteluihin perustuva taidekeräilijän opas ja tutkimus suomalaisesta nykynaivismista.
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Figuratively Speaking - Irene Wai Lwin Moe
CONTENTS
ONCE UPON TIME IN FINLAND
From Finland with Love
INTRODUCING FINNISH NAIVISM
Who Said It’s Art?
THE FABULOUS AND THE NOSTALGIC
Aimo Katajainen
Anna-Liisa Hakkarainen
TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Mia Bergqvist
Marjaana Orkoneva
BEAUTY IN ACTION – AND IN STILL LIFE
Kikka Nyrén
Seija Levanto
MYTH AND MAGIC REVISITED
Jeroma Matias Tabell
Marja-Leena Pulkkinen
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF TRAVELS TO JAPAN?
Hannu Riikonen
Lauri Lahtinen
ART AS LANGUAGE
Foreword
This is a small book on contemporary Finnish art – with a twist. When we say contemporary art
most people think of digital works, installations, minimalism in huge scale, experimental art for all senses, conceptual riddles and more. Even more seldom do we see traditional framed oil paintings with a fairytale-like scene and narrative in modern art museums or contemporary galleries. But here we are, browsing through a book full of colour and magical stories – claiming to be the New Wave of Finnish art. The following pages introduce the reader to ten Finnish artists, who proudly define their art as belonging to Naïvism. Naïvism is age-old, yes. Everybody remembers Henri Rousseau. Naïvism has also intertwined roots with folk art and the so called art of the Fourth World
or commercially produced tourist artefacts, many times offered as genuine tradition in Haiti, Tanzania or any other exotic travel destination. What these Finnish artists have created is completely fresh form of Naïve art – Naïvism as an alternative for the abstract and the metaphysical in contemporary art. Art has always held a mirror in front of the viewer. The picture seen has reflected time and values. Return of the Naïve art tells that the wish for soft-spoken beauty is alive as vividly as is the mystery and magic.
ONCE UPON TIME IN FINLAND
Arts as craft has been created in Finland for thousands of years. Taste for beauty and the need to decorate daily utensils is as basic as heartbeat in every known human culture. Finland has a long history of being ruled by her neighbours. For the first Christian centuries, the Finns lived under Swedish crown c.1150-1809. The church and the rulers of Sweden were also the trendsetters for anything considered as art. Few native Finnish artists ever got the chance to actually study art. After a war 1808-1809 between Sweden and Imperial Russia, Finland became a Grand Duchy, an autonomous part of the Empire of Russia (1809-1917). The century-long period witnessed the emergence of flourishing Finnish art and culture as well as the idea of independent Republic of Finland.
From Finland with Love
National art style of Finland was created by a talented group of internationally experienced masters during the last decades of the 19th century. Celebrated artists like Akseli Gallen-Kallela and Albert Edelfelt found their inspiration both from the buzz of exciting European metropolis like Paris, but also from the Finnish national epic Kalevala and the silence of Northern nature. Modernism travelled to Finland in the suitcases of these artists. Their work defines today the basic outline of what we call the Finnish classics.
As this book is about Naïvism in Finland, lets take a short cut to history and find out where the inspiration comes from. The Finns wandered up into the Northern forests around 10 000 years ago, following the tracks of game. During those early times most parts of Finland were still covered by ice. It is quite natural, that the great green woods and the silence of polar nights created a rich tradition of