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More important than the table itself is the emptiness surrounding it – The all-dimensionality of art

The paradox of a paradox is a paradox– A spectacle that is not a spectacle –

I’m a sculptor and a transformer. Universal energy is my material and art, which is universal energy too, is my means. Expanding consciousness, as well as aiming at it, has always been a part of my artistic intentions. With consciousness, in addition to human consciousness, I mean the consciousness of the cosmos – they are but one. My works attempt to captivate people from their commonplace conventions into where the personal disappears. For me, the most interesting thing – rather than creating objective and decentralized objects – is finding and realizing people’s inner spaces. In practice, this means that I act according to the situation, using materials and art genres required by each situation. Thus, everything is open – be it cotton, stone or the immaterial.

The common idea, often accepted as a truth, that nothing can be achieved by formal means since everything in contemporary art has already been done, is a mistake. We are so greatly under the influence of formal powers that we hardly notice it. Formal matters affect us all the time. For those claiming that it’s impossible to achieve anything by formal means, I’d like to say that either they don’t happen to be aware of all the possibilities, or that they are conditioned into expecting effects that are much too one-sided.

I might even say my exhibition is based on formal means – whatever is being meant with that. I am sometimes asked who the artists are who have affected my artistic work. I immediately consider this a wrong kind of a question since the answer is not a person but nature. Answering a single artist or a couple of them would be lying, or, if not lying, at least be
underestimating many others. Even if I would name some people with an important effect, nature would be a more correct answer. The ones who have
affected me are a part of nature and, in turn, have got their effects from nature – in spite of them probably not seeing it this way. However, I’m grateful to those I’ve learnt from, and to them I want to address my proper thanks.

more information: trosimoen@hotmail.com

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For his first solo exhibition in Helsinki, Dublin based visual artist PatrickJolley will present two of his most recent film works, 'Sog' and 'Low Atmospheric Pressure', both completed in 2007.

The works function through displacement - the relocation of the familiar to a place simultaneously logical and unnatural. Their intent is documentary - to describe what is actually there, but not necessarily physical or visible. They explore the areas where the line between the real and the allegorical begins to blur.

'Sog' reverses the idea of sick building syndrome. It is not the
building that is making its inhabitants sick but rather the
inhabitants and their residue that makes the building ill.

'Low Atmospheric Pressure' is part of a continuing exploration of the hidden anthropomorphic qualities of the inanimate and records the effects of oppressive weather on a group of discarded mattresses.

Jolley's works are deeply rooted in a theme central to the modern psyche, a theme touched on by numerous horror films and ghost stories, but perhaps not as deeply explored: how the houses we live in come to haunt us, how they become portraits of our own fears, neurosis, taboos and suppressed impulses, of our own inability to see ourselves as we are and to recognize the taint within our own souls.

Patrick Jolley has participated in solo and group exhibitions
internationally since the beginning of 1990's. His recent exhibitions include Into Me/Out of Me, PS1/MOMA, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin; MACRO, Rome 2006/7; Of Mice and Men, Berlin Biennial 2006; Asphyxia, San Luiis Potosi, Mexico 2006; Lessico Europeo, Stazione Leopolda, Firenze 2007. Forthcoming exhibitions include Lyon Bienniale 09/07; Galeria Leme Sao Paolo 10/07. Jolley's works have been screened at Tate Modern, London; MOMA, New York; Irish Museum of Modern Art,
Dublin; Moderna Museet - Museum of Contemporary Art, Stockholm; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.; Havana Biennial; Kunsthalle, Vienna; Kunsthaus, Zurich; Sundance International Film Festival;
Edinburgh Film Festival; New York Underground Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival among other venues,.

The exhibition is a part of the HUUTO TUOTANTO ('Huuto productions') series, realized through the contacts of Galleria Huuto and its member artists on a shoestring budget and bringing interesting and thought-provoking exhibitions by international artists to Helsinki.

The exhibition is produced in collaboration with HIAP - Helsinki International Artist-in-residence Programme.

www.pjolley.com
www.galleriahuuto.net