HOLE IN THE UNIVERSE 27.5.—28.8'11
07.06.2011
Pilar Andeyro, Riikka Aresalo, Michal Cimala, Scott Andrew Elliott, Markku Hakuri, Tristan Hamel, Roel Meijs, Salla Salin, Dan Snow, Juliane Stiegele
Markku Hakuri: Metsän ihme 1995-2011
Markku Hakuri, sculptor and professor of Environmental Art at the Aalto University School of Art and Design, has invited to the Hole in the Universe exhibition renowned environmental artists from Europe and the United States as well as graduates and students of the international Environmental Art Programme of Aalto University School of Art and Design. All of the artists are united by their desire to create art in the environment, resulting in memorable experiences and sharing what one might call a poetic character.
Hakuri writes: "Environmental art is a public act. It is a statement which has its ethic and aesthetic premises. Life is an enigma which we try to solve in the space between two events, birth and death. We call this space reality, the world or environment, and attempt to control it by research, analysis, individualization and labelling. In environmental art the space surrounding us is an essential part of the artwork or indeed the starting point for acting and constructing. Environmental art is focused on the human and the relationship between peoples’ acts and reality, the world and the environment, where everything is connected and influences each other – and nothing ever stays the same."
The artistic experiences of the Hole in the Universe exhibition are the work of, apart from Markku Hakuri, environmental artists Michal Cimala from the Czech Republic, Juliane Stiegele from Germany and Dan Snow from the United States. Of Hakuri’s former students of Environmental Art included are Roel Meijs from Holland and Scott Andrew Elliott from Canada and of his current students Pilar Andeyro from Spain and Tristan Hamel from France as well as Riikka Aresalo and Salla Salin from Finland.
THE EXHIBITION HAS BEEN MADE IN ASSOCIATION WITH: Aalto University & VR
Kerava Art Museum, Klondyke-house, Savio-station, Kumitehtaankatu 5 F, 04260 Kerava, tel. +358-9-2948090. OPEN: tue-fri 12–18, sat-sun 11-17. ADMISSION FEES: adults 5 € / pensioners, students, unemployed 3 € / artists, art students, teachers 1 € / free admission under 16 year-olds and Wednesdays. From Helsinki main railway station take the train K to Savio-station (circa 30 minutes).