58. PENTTI LUMIKANGAS,
5 October - 22 November 1991
The exhibition in Gallery A presented drawings by Pentti
Lumikangas (b. 1926 Kylmäkoski) from 1958-86.
The museum collection has 34 drawings by Pentti Lumikangas.
The exhibition was part of the museum's "Close-ups" exhibition
series. The underlying principle of the series is to understand and interpret
the works as a part of the artist's creative process and also to re-enact
the physical surroundings in which the artist had created the same works.
Pentti Lumikangas is best known as a graphic artist. His
dry point engravings and aquatints are usually of different buildings
or parts of buildings surrounded by a feeling of intense silence and
timelessness.
Many of his early drawings were sketches for graphic works. It was at
a later period that Lumikangas started to make drawings as independent
works of art.
The exhibition included a video presentation as well as
numerous photographs which conveyed an image of the artist and his
surroundings.
Other galleries of the museum were reserved for important
works from the Sara Hildén Foundation's collection. The exhibition
presented modern art classics, such as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger,
Juan Gris and Pierre Bonnard, as well as different styles of the 1960's
and 70's, both from Finland and abroad.
Catalogue:
Pentti Lumikangas
1991, 96 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 48
ISBN 952-9652-03-8
ISSN 0357-3001
Not on sale
2,692 visitors attended the exhibition.
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