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Opening hours:
Tue–Sat from 11 am to 4 pm,
Sun from 11 am to 5 pm.
Tickets:
Adults € 8
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Free entrance for children and young people under 18.
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In this exhibition the rich visual world of artist Petri Hytönen (born 1963) meets the moods and atmosphere recorded by Akseli Gallen-Kallela (1865 –1931) on his travels. Inspired by Gallen-Kallela, Hytönen displays works created on pages of sketch-books while travelling. The artist recorded people whom he met, monuments of the past and fleeting urban scenes alike.
Petri Hytönen revels in the fervid power of an ordinary ink pen in the bustle of a street bar, or pauses reverently before a silver-grey interior of a 19th-century mood, carefully copying reality in pencil. The sketch-books on show reveal the allure of drawing, the artist's way of encountering and understanding the world. The spontaneity of expression is in contrast to the artist's large watercolour works.
Gallen-Kallela's material consists of works from domestic and foreign travels: quick sketches from the boulevards and cafés of Paris, apt characterizations of artist friends, and landscapes. They also reflect the artist's yearning beyond reality, for the mysterious visions of the night, the world of myth and fable. A culmination of the travel images are Gallen-Kallela's sketches from his period in Africa in 1909–1910, expressing strong experience of moments in paradise and revealing the discovery of new creative joy.
The catalogue of Travelling is an encounter of two draughtsmen, a door to the sources of making images, the world of drawings and sketches. The pictures of travelling provide a book replicating the immediate and unpolished moods of the sketch-books, a book that has faith in the independent narrative power of pictures. The material of the catalogue consists of Petri Hytönen's sketch-books from 1977–2009 and images from Akseli Gallen-Kallela's collection of drawings from the 1870s to 1931.
"The image of a journey is marked on a map as a chronological line as a documentary depiction of a completed journey. A forthcoming journey sketched on a map is an adventure, unknown and something to be experienced. I have always wanted to approach this unknown adventure also via drawing, painting, photography and the moving image. As a traveller I feel privileged since time, space and emotion change to become different and perhaps even deeper when I can suddenly calm down and focus on making the image in the midst of a hectic journey. The transformation of time from hectic to slower is perhaps as such one of the main benefits of drawing while travelling. So without further ado, I wish you bon voyage along a changing span of time!"
(Petri Hytönen)
Gallen-Kallela Museum homepage
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