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Opening hours:
Tue–Sat 11–16, Sun 11–17.
Tickets:
Adults 8 €
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Free entrance for children and persons under 18.
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The main themes of Power of Everyday Life are handcrafted work and the artist's relationship with the material. The exhibition is curated by ceramic artist Maarit Mäkelä, Doctor of Arts, who has invited ten of her colleagues working in ceramics, glass and textile arts to exhibit. Made on commission for Power of Everyday Life, the works take as their starting points the life and work of Akseli Gallen-Kallela or his Tarvaspää studio and home, thus establishing a dialogue between the traditions and practices of two different eras.
The exhibition has two underlying aspects – a connection with Akseli Gallen-Kallela's work as both artist and designer and the role of his wife, Mary Gallen-Kallela, in realizing Akseli's plans and managing the everyday life of the household. Through their works, the invited (female) artists comment not only on the museum collection and the artist's studio-home but also on the everyday experiences and life the Gallen-Kallelas, and Mary in particular.
The exhibition also addresses scholarly questions concerning the interfaces of crafts, visual art and design. Crafts are said to be grounded in wordless skills, the concrete experience of making things, while applied art has been regarded as genre of design including areas such as textiles, ceramics and glass art. In the Gallen-Kallelas' era, crafts were not distinct from other work but instead a natural and central aspect of everyday life. In today's world, crafts no longer have a decisive role in daily life and they have changed in character from replicative to creative and more artistic in nature.
The exhibiting artists: Niran Baibulat, Eliisa Isoniemi, Catharina Kajander, Riikka Latva-Somppi, Hanna Mikola, Maarit Mäkelä, Nithikul Nimkulrat, Silja Puranen, Pia Staff and Outi Turpeinen.
The book published in connection with the exhibition approaches the subject from the perspective of research and brings forth the process of preparing the exhibition. The main emphasis of the illustrations in the book is on documenting the work of the artists and the processes by which they created their works. The book has been prepared in association with Maahenki publishers.
Gallen-Kallelan Museon kotisivu
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