Kuiskauksia ja huutoja 23.06. - 11.07.2010

Galleria Nunes tuo vuoden 2010 ohjelmaansa kolme näyttelyä, vierailevien kuraattoreiden järjestämänä. Sarja alkaa keskikesällä taiteilija KiA Winqvistin kuratoimana Kuiskauksia ja huutoja-näyttelyllä

KiA Winqvist järjestää yhdessä Galleria Nunesin kanssa yhteisnäyttelyn Kuiskauksia ja Huutoja.Näyttelyyn osallistuvat taiteilijat:

• Pirjo Hassinen, Helsinki

• Else-Maj Koskimäki, Espoo

• Tiina Lehtimäki, Vaasa

• Minna Lilljakku, Helsinki

• Artto Nyqvist, Röykkä

• Maija Pasanen, Helsinki

• Seppo Piirainen, Helsinki

• Heidi Saarelainen, Helsinki

• Suvi Savolainen, Espoo

• Taru Tomperi, Röykkä

Kuraattorin sanat:

Kuuletko kuiskauksen vai huudon?

Hukkuuko huuto?

Tuleeko hiljainen yllättäen kuulluksi?

Näyttelyssä on esillä kymmenen taiteilijaa. Näyttely oli avoin kaikille taiteentekijöille, riippumatta siitä kuuluvatko he jäsenliittoihin vai eivät. Mielestäni hyvä teos ansaitsee tulla nähdyksi. Teokset tukevattoisiaan onnistuneesti, aivan kuin taiteilijat olisivat lukeneet ajatukseni näyttelyn kokonaisuudesta.

Näyttelyssä kuluu kuiskauksia ja huutoja.

Katso teoksia – ja kuule ne.

Lämmin kiitos taiteilijoille, jotka antoivat teoksensa, välineeksi toteuttaa visioni. Kiitos Galleria Nunesille yhteistyöstä.

KiA Winqvist,

kuraattori, kuvataiteilija, visualisti, nainen ja äiti

ArtShortCut's Cable Fair goes to Turku in Southern Finland!

May 16, 2010

NEW YEAR, NEW TRICKS IN ARTBREAK MOTEL!

4 January 2010

ArtBreak Motel is starting 2010 proudly by expanding its concept to show the way visual art works as an interpreter of interesting topics in society and people. ArtBreak Motel is proud in not only introducing its eighth artist exhibition but also a monthly blog starting on January 7^th at www.artbreakmotel.org. The first writer is no-one less than Berndt Arell, Director of Kiasma, writing under the topic “What Would Art Do?”.

Now that the first Thursday every month between 6-8pm spent at Helsinki’s best lounge bar is already a pleasurable habit to many, ArtBreak Motel continues to offer you an added enjoyment factor whilst chilling with the best beer in town. In January ArtBreak Motel is proud to present the works by Suvi Konttinen.

Suvi Konttinen is a Helsinki based artist and art historian, who studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and works in the horizons where word and image meet. Essential to Suvi’s recent work is the ameba like sketches of the human form, which tend to be present in the everyday of humanity. Konttinen places these figures in contexts with comments of them that often remain unsaid. The exhibition in Motellet is one example of a normal bar evening where the possible unsaid becomes said through Suvi’s works.

Artist Jessica Guisquet, Motellet and ArtShortCut are proud to present the non-profit organisations “ArtBreak Motel” sponsored by Grolsch exhibition series eighth vernissage. The opening of Konttinen’s exhibition is on Thursday 7th January from 18.00-20.00 at Motellet Lounge Bar on Annankatu 10.

Once again; If you don't come for the great art, at least come for the good beer!

Best regards,

Jessica/Curator, Kira & Leeni/ASC & Mehdi/Motellet

ARTIST STATEMENT

Suvi Konttinen

I paint socially conscious art. I get the ideas for my paintings from thoughts about everyday life; I react to the things around me. Most of them originate from a strong feeling I had about art, violence, crime, abuse, racism, polluting the environment, poverty, politics, equality or cruelty – in all: humanity. This includes observing things as a foreigner in the US, where I used to live during 2004-2007. My paintings are argumentative and they often ask questions, inviting the viewer to participate and think. There is an intentional freedom to feel.

Currently I have been fascinated by the unsaid, the things that we go through in minds and which affect our action, but rarely say out loud. The works in the ArtBreak Motel exhibition deal with the unsaid in a bar scene. The inner world does not have to be a private monologue. The minute we start to laugh about the inhibitions and inner doubts is the point when they no longer have control over us. I encourage everyone to dare to expose what is going on in the inside! That is when things get truly interesting.

My paintings are between abstract and representative - they can be experienced as both. I am very interested in bold mark making and find new ways to use materials. I love to paint on large unprimed canvases or recycled materials with thick acrylic paint. I used sails as the main material in the ArtBreak Motel exhibition. I think it brings a nice feeling of lived life, real world, into the whole. It also gives me the change to react to marks which were made for something else and give new meanings to them.

The act of painting is vigorous; there’s a lot of movement and feeling. I build up layers with painting, drawing, stenciled text, screening and collaged materials. I often use found materials, such as tickets, empty bullets, warning band, metal objects and sand as things that bring up associations and feeling of surface. Recently my style has gone towards more simple, even minimalistic mark making, cutting away all the unnecessary to emphasize the topic.

For me the idea and the story behind a painting is equally important than the actual piece. Painting is a way of communicating, discussing. I want to paint what is at the same time aesthetically and intellectually appealing. Very often there is also humor in the works, which makes it easier to talk about even something which can be difficult for most.