Sarianne Soikkonen | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Kari Vehosalon näyttelyn yhteydessä julkaistu runsaasti kuvitettu teos. Artikkelien kirjoittajina Päivi Loimaala, Sarianne Soikkonen, Juha Varto sekä Sanna Tirkkonen. Julkaisu sisältää laajan kuvallisen teosluettelon.

Tekstit suomeksi ja englanniksi.

Kari Vehosalo (b. 1982), who won the Ars Fennica prize in 2017, is one of the most interesting of contemporary artists in Finland. His art is rooted in reality and based on a critical examination of it. For him art means above all deliberation. Vehosalo’s works are representational, and frequently the subject is a human figure, either as an individual or as a member of a group. He sets his figures in a space as if on a stage to be examined. At the heart of his work are light and darkness and the beauty and terror of being.

The Sara Hildén Art Museum presented Vehosalo’s major series The fear of violent death (2009–), Young Adults (2017–) and Metaphysics of Presence (2018–) as comprehensive ensembles for the first time. Also in the exhibition were Doppelgänger and Dorian Gray, key serial works covering a span of several years.

This exhibition assembled by the Sara Hildén Art Museum continued the research-based presentation of artists represented in the collection of the Sara Hildén Foundation. A richly illustrated book containing articles by the philosophers Sanna Tirkkonen and Juha Varto was published in conjunction with the exhibition.

Kari Vehosalo comes from Ylöjärvi, near Tampere. He lives and works in Helsinki.