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60. BETWEEN A PICTURE AND OBJECTS - ASSEMBLAGES
Mysteriously Yours and other assemblages from the Collection
of the Sara Hildén Foundation,
18 January - 15 March 1992
The exhibition displayed 29 collages or assemblages by
the following artists: Arman, Pierre Buraglio, Christo, Gérald
Duchêne, Juhani Harri, Outi Heiskanen, Edward Kienholz,
Picasso, Jean Claude Pinchon, Robert Rauschenberg, Martial
Raysse, Aarno Salosmaa, Kurt Schwitters, George Segal and
Gerald Titus-Carmel.
The exhibition used examples to show how the concept of
the picture has detached itself from a two-dimensional
surface during this century, and how different materials -
paper, labels, tickets and pieces of fabric, etc. - have
gradually been accepted in art works. Simultaneously the
concept of art and the art object have changed. As early as
the 1910's Marcel Duchamp challenged the concept of the art
object when he exhibited a commercial bottle-rack and other
ready-mades.
Interest in mixed media art grew again at the beginning
of the 1960's as post-war economic, technical and social
progress got under way and the whole concept of art, among
many other things, was questioned. The principles of art
changed, and the border between life and art became less
distinct. The materialization of art was one way to bring
art and life closer to each other. Art forms have multiplied
in the 1980's and 90's, and the definition of art is even
more difficult.
Aside from its historical importance, the exhibition
showed that artistic endeavour can also use other than the
traditional methods and techniques of painting and sculpture.
The exhibition proved that it is possible to connect
everyday objects and materials without prejudice, and that
they have a lot to offer the creative imagination.
Catalogue:
Puuterihuisku
1992, 92 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 50 (Text in Finnish)
ISBN 952-9652-05-4
ISSN 0357-3001
Price FIM 30
2,548 visitors attended the exhibition.
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