67. SELECTIONS
New Finnish art from the collection of the Wihuri Fund,
26 September - 21 November 1993
The collection of the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Fund is an
art collection which is continuously being complemented with new
acquisitions.
The collection, which is placed in the Rovaniemi Art Museum, is one of
the most significant and extensive museum collections of new Finnish pictorial
arts.
The aim of the exhibition in terms of content was to offer
the public an overall view and perspective of recent developments in Finnish
contemporary art.
Works in the "Selections" exhibition had been
created between 1983 and 1993, but most of them date back to the five
year period 1988-93. Works by about forty artists were exhibited. The
majority of the artists had begun their careers in the 1980's, although
there were a few who had practised the profession for a longer period
of time. The exhibition could be characterized as a kind of selectively
expanded, five-year exhibition of "young artists".
In the "Selections" exhibition, certain groups
of art works can be distinguished. Some of the works had a geometrical
or constructive abstract emphasis, whereas other works showed traces of
the expressionistic tradition both in terms of abstract form and
figurativeness. However, using these kinds of categorizations and labelling works on a
scale of representative - abstract revealed little of the works
themselves; rather, they might have characterized the relationship of the works to
Classical Modernism by raising again and again the relationship between
Realism and greenbergian autonomous Modernism.
When works were selected from the Wihuri Fund for the
"Selections" exhibition, attention was paid at least to the
following viewpoints: the aim of the exhibition was to give an overall
view of the most recent artworks in the Wihuri Fund collection; at the
same time it was hoped that the exhibition would reflect phenomena in
the Finnish visual arts of the 1980's and 1990's. The exhibition was put
together bearing in mind the facilities of the Sara Hildén Art
Museum.
Works were exhibited on both floors of the museum.
Catalogue:
Valintoja
1993, 36 pages
Sara Hildén Art Museum Publication 56 (Text in Finnish)
ISBN 952-9652-11-9
ISSN 0357-3001
Not on sale
5,604 visitors attended the exhibition.
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