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The Helsinki School Perspective
Persons Projects warmly welcomes you to our summer exhibition: The Helsinki School Perspective. The show is presented in both gallery spaces Lindenstr. 34 and 35, featuring a selection of artists, all of whom had pivotal roles in the beginning of the Helsinki School. The exhibition is dedicated to the historical aspect, exploring how these artists use the photographic processes as a voice for abstraction and a tool for interpreting their emotional landscapes. The Helsinki School platform was created by Timothy Persons in the 1990s, who became inspired by his experience with the Open Studio Concept that was popular during his graduate studies in the mid-1970s in Southern California. It grew to become the most extended sustainable educational platform of its kind consisting of 6 generations of selected MA students originating from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. There are now more than 180 monogram books and 6 volumes of the Helsinki School book that have evolved from this program. This exhibition is curated to reintroduce a new perspective on the conceptual roots that built The Helsinki School.
In Part 1, we experience four different approaches to how these selected artists use the photographic process to abstract a moment in time, the passage of a day, a memory of a specific place, or the interpretation of a historical painting.
Niko Luoma draws upon art history to find subjects for his reinterpretations. His choices range from Jacques-Louis David, through Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, to Francis Bacon in his series, Adaptations. Using his unique photographic practice, he abstracts these iconic images to produce something entirely new. The idea is not to duplicate the original but to interpret it in the spirit of how it was conceived. His image grow from the inside out, as the outcome tends to be spontaneous and unknown. His work is all about light as it touches the film, the exposure becomes his dance, revealing the music from which he is inspired. These photographs represent 20 years of Luoma鈥檚 experimentations with light as his silent voice.
Reflections of the Ever-Changing (The Short History of Now) is Ea Vasko鈥檚 series documenting the bustling nightlife of cities through photographing the close up reflections of fleeting movement of lights. These works explore a city spaces ability to constantly change and move, as natural light turns to dark, the artificial light of surrounding areas begin to flicker on as life continues. A reflection has the ability to gather the light surrounding it into one abstract picture on a surface. Vasko compares these reflections to momentary experiences: The experience of now is fresh, abstract and still apart from the logical timeline of history that we tend to build in our heads. The unpredictability of now can be seen in the photographed reflection; nothing is definable, yet, it is just ephemeral sighting. The reflection is captured in a photograph, but like all movement within an ever-changing world, it cannot be held in one place. Whatever was once captured has already moved on.
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Persons Projects warmly welcomes you to our summer exhibition: The Helsinki School Perspective. The show is presented in both gallery spaces Lindenstr. 34 and 35, featuring a selection of artists, all of whom had pivotal roles in the beginning of the Helsinki School. The exhibition is dedicated to the historical aspect, exploring how these artists use the photographic processes as a voice for abstraction and a tool for interpreting their emotional landscapes. The Helsinki School platform was created by Timothy Persons in the 1990s, who became inspired by his experience with the Open Studio Concept that was popular during his graduate studies in the mid-1970s in Southern California. It grew to become the most extended sustainable educational platform of its kind consisting of 6 generations of selected MA students originating from the University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. There are now more than 180 monogram books and 6 volumes of the Helsinki School book that have evolved from this program. This exhibition is curated to reintroduce a new perspective on the conceptual roots that built The Helsinki School.
In Part 1, we experience four different approaches to how these selected artists use the photographic process to abstract a moment in time, the passage of a day, a memory of a specific place, or the interpretation of a historical painting.
Niko Luoma draws upon art history to find subjects for his reinterpretations. His choices range from Jacques-Louis David, through Marcel Duchamp and Pablo Picasso, to Francis Bacon in his series, Adaptations. Using his unique photographic practice, he abstracts these iconic images to produce something entirely new. The idea is not to duplicate the original but to interpret it in the spirit of how it was conceived. His image grow from the inside out, as the outcome tends to be spontaneous and unknown. His work is all about light as it touches the film, the exposure becomes his dance, revealing the music from which he is inspired. These photographs represent 20 years of Luoma鈥檚 experimentations with light as his silent voice.
Reflections of the Ever-Changing (The Short History of Now) is Ea Vasko鈥檚 series documenting the bustling nightlife of cities through photographing the close up reflections of fleeting movement of lights. These works explore a city spaces ability to constantly change and move, as natural light turns to dark, the artificial light of surrounding areas begin to flicker on as life continues. A reflection has the ability to gather the light surrounding it into one abstract picture on a surface. Vasko compares these reflections to momentary experiences: The experience of now is fresh, abstract and still apart from the logical timeline of history that we tend to build in our heads. The unpredictability of now can be seen in the photographed reflection; nothing is definable, yet, it is just ephemeral sighting. The reflection is captured in a photograph, but like all movement within an ever-changing world, it cannot be held in one place. Whatever was once captured has already moved on.
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