Mikko Kallio
"FLAMENCO DESPERADO EPILÄ HIGHWAY"
3.1. – 14.1.2007
Pictures
Tiny, dotted people are climbing up a tree. Some colourful balloons are floating above the pedestrian’s heads. Someone reaches for the mountain top, the other finds a flower and sits down on the ground...
In Mikko Kallio’s works, the focus is on imperfect and usually bright people. In his collages, he uses deserted materials in the spirit of arte povera. In works like Siporex Melancholy or Vuoren Siirtäjät, the wrinkled naivism of the drawings becomes partly three dimensional. In his coloured works, drawing, painting and objects, such as toy parts, are interlaced. A happy chaos reigns: a situation which is desperate and dignified at the same time and when you stamp the ice to the rhythm of flamenco in a northern suburb, as a work called Flamenco Desperado Epilä Highway suggests.
Mikko Kallio’s exhibition is directly connected with contemporary drawing and collage art, but it also has similarities with folk art. Kallio travelled in India during1998 and again during 2002, and for example folk artist Nek Chand had an influence on him. His journeys have especially affected the great variety of materials he uses.
Mikko Kallio is 35 years old and lives in Tampere. His works were exhibited for instance at Nuorten biennaali (the Biennale of Young Artists) in Kunsthalle Helsinki in November 2005 and in Kerava Art Museum in an exhibition called ”Balaton Day and Night” during the summer 2006. His previous private exhibition was in Tampere in Galleria Rajatila in December 2006.
Contact information:
Mikko Kallio: +358-50-3465032,
kalliomikko( at )hotmail.com
Welcome to the opening of the exhibition 2. January, 6 to 8 pm!
Arts Council of Pirkanmaa has supported the exhibition.
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Katri Lassila
Ilmanranta - Éire - Finis Terrae
Pictures
Finis Terrae - the land's end.The place or the border where the land disappears, becomes one with sky or water, clouds and mist. This exhibit is the first in the series of three exhibitions called Finis Terrae. It consists of black and white photographs taken in Ireland in the spring 2006. The focal point of the exhibition series is my photography book Ilmanranta - Vedenraja -Finis Terrae, which will be published in 2007. The theme of this first exhibition is the endlessness of the sky, the infinity of its borders. I present also a portfolio consisting a collection of photographs from the exhibition. The exhibition and the portfolio are both part of my final work from the University of Art and Design of Helsinki.
All my photographs are hand made silvergelatin prints. In the shadow parts can be seen the darkness of red shady darkroom, in the contrasts can be tasted the bitterness of several toners. In photography I'm fascinated by the possibility of letting go the time we're living in and the illusion of timelessness. While looking at my pictures it's often hard to tell during which decade or even century they were taken. I rather work as observer, but my photographs are not documentary. I print them in darkroom as I saw the places and moments, which differs from the objective image quite a lot sometimes. Nevertheless, my subject is the world around me, its beauty and breathtaking magnitude.
"The material of the artist lies not within himself
nor in the fabrications of his imagination,
but in the world around him."
- Paul Strand
Information:
katri.lassila( at )uiah.fi
041-456 3336
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