EXHIBITION PROGRAMME FOR SPRING 2010

Art has never reproduced reality in the same way as a mirror, in which we can read a projection of the space refl ected on a plane. Art does, however, offer an instrument that, much like language, facilitates cultural interaction and thinking about representation – the observation of reality, the conceptualisation of experiences, the production and reinterpretation of meaningful differences in an endless chain of links that relies on tradition while renewing it. It can concern a collector whose refi ned eye reads the variegated fi eld of art in our time. It can concern the viewers who produce ever new personal interpretations when they have an opportunity to
manipulate the exhibition and thereby affect the unique end result. It can concern a group of artists who take up the task of looking into the relationship between vocabularies of the modernist tradition and of popular culture – or a group of architects and artists who are concerned about the interrelations of buildings and structures and people from Mongolia to Canada to the Neo-Renaissance blocks along the Kokemäenjoki River in Pori.

MORE THAN LIFE! Lars Göran Johnsson In the series Collector’s Eye [12.02.2010 - 30.05.2010] Hall, Entrance hall More Than Life! continues the Collector´s Eye exhibition series in the Pori Art Museum by presenting works from the collections of Lars Johnsson. The collection opens up perspectives on the tradition of Finnish and Scandinavian Modernism as well as the field of contemporary art. The collector´s personal and intellectual approach, one that is no stranger to powerful emotion either, delineates a subtle area in art that is informed by Nordic constructivist abstraction and the tradition of colour painting. Media release >>

SCULPTURE! Educational exhibition in the Maire Gullichsen and Modernism series [12.02.2010 - 04.04.2010] Artists featured in the exhibition are Gunnar Elfgren, Laila Pullinen, Kimmo Pyykkö, Sakari Tohka Sculptures in bronze, iron or stone are by their very nature permanent. The sense of timelessness and immutability is only intensified by the idea of sculptures resting in the bosom of a museum in carefully regulated conditions. The Sculpture! exhibition investigates the solidity of the link between artworks and the ideas and ideologies of their time. Can present-day audiences approach artworks of past decades with the same freshness as contemporaries did, when the works engaged in the art discourse of their time by either challenging or confirming the then prevalent ideas and attitudes? Can features which challenged the taste of the age or enjoyed general acceptance still touch us in the same way? Does an artwork change because we are different? Media release >>

MARGARITA ANDREU ENTREVEURE / VIEWER The gesture of the image [12.02.2010 - 04.04.2010] Wing, Mediapoint Margarita Andreu has recorded movements of the human body – rhythms, gestures and expressions that reflect thoughts, the impulses of life. The subject in her works is the individual, both in public and in private, doing ordinary things. Andreu´s works build up into an architectural video installation in which the viewer, the works and the space are all in interaction. With presence and motion – of the audience as well as of the elements of the exhibition – the images open up, spreading out into the space, transforming it and the nature of perception. Media release >> www.margaritaandreu.com